Pakistan International Students Alliance

04/05/2021

Hi, everyone. As all of you must know, India is quite literally struggling to breathe and is at the brink of insurmountable devastation. The scenes around are heartbreaking, as the country is crippling under a virulent second wave of the Covid-19 pandemic.

In collaboration with the LSE SU South Asia Society — we have started a fundraiser which will support 5 grassroots organisations in India that are currently working on providing different kinds of Covid Relief work.

We are in a race against time, and every donation counts. We need your support, so please contribute as generously as you would like to fight this catastrophe.

You can make the donation here:

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30/11/2019

Very pleased to see our support of the march - as well as testimonials by the Presidents of the LSE SU Pakistan Development Society and Harvard College Pakistani Students Association - HCPSA - covered by Dawn.com!

https://www.dawn.com/news/1519443

We proudly stand with our brothers and sisters back home for the advancement of student rights. Their protest yesterday is an example to activists, students and citizens of democracy across the world. We look forward to working with the Progressive Students Collective and other student groups under the inclusive banner of the Student Action Committee to push for the change our best and brightest need and deserve.

Pakistan Zindabad!

Pakistani students pen open letter to govt to lift the ban on unions.

28/11/2019

The Pakistan International Students Alliance would like to formally publish this Open Letter Petition, which endorses the Student’s Solidarity March on November 29th and urges the government to repeal the 1984 ban on student unions.

This petition is undersigned by Presidents of Pakistan Societies across the world who represent tens of thousands of Pakistani students on four different continents.

We stand with our brothers and sisters back home in Pakistan and will work actively in the coming months to ensure that their demands are met, so they may access the same opportunities that we have the privilege to enjoy abroad. The country we call home will be better for it.

Pakistan Zindabad!

Hamza Tariq Chaudhry
Founder, Pakistan International Students Alliance

23/11/2019

Over the past year, the Pakistan International Student Alliance's student members from across the world have worked with each other to construct programs and institutions that can improve Pakistan's political discourse.

PISA is pleased to announce that one of its student projects, PakistanFact - Pakistan's first institutionalized fact-checker which seeks to check the veracity of claims made by Pakistan's political class - is now under the ownership of PILDAT, one of Pakistan's most prestigious think tanks which focuses on political transparency and legislative development.

Congratulations to our members who constructed this program, and best wishes to PILDAT's future with the project. It is our hope that programs such as these can play some role in the institution building that is integral to the maintenance and development of Pakistan's political discourse.

15/01/2019

Dear Members,

Due to the overwhelming response and broad interest in the Future of Pakistan journal, the editorial board has decided to extend the deadline for sending over your submissions to February 15, 2019.

We want to ensure that the maximum number of students and young academics get the opportunity to directly participate in the initiative to reclaim knowledge production from the Global South.

Kindly refer to our pinned post for details or send us an email at [email protected].

We look forward to reading your submissions!

05/01/2019

Dear Members,

We hope you all have made the most of the holidays and are gearing up for new academic challenges in 2019.

We would like to remind you of the approaching deadline for sending in your submissions to be published in the Future of Pakistan Journal, by January 15th 2019. Check out the pinned post on our wall for more details.

The FoP Journal will be published by the esteemed LSE Press in March 2019, with the honourable Advisor to the Prime Minister for Institutional Reforms & Austerity, Dr. Ishrat Hussain as the Patron of the publication.

We look forward to reading your submissions!

Happy New Year!

07/12/2018

Dear Members,

We are so excited to share that we have already received an overwhelming number of submissions for the Future of Pakistan Journal! We would like to sincerely express our gratitude towards all those who have already sent in their research pieces, and encourage those who are interested in contributing to this coveted international platform, to be published by the London School of Economics Press, under the patronage of the honourable Dr. Ishrat Hussain.

As researchers, we can understand the many frustrations that academicians from the Global South face to get published in internationally recognised journals. The idea of the Future of Pakistan Journal is to proudly feature original research rooted in Pakistan as an independent site of Knowledge Production and critical thinking on a global platform, so that our academic pursuits, especially those of students and young researchers, are neither side-lined nor co-opted.

We would like to remind all those interested to send in their submissions by 15th January 2019 at [email protected].

Looking forward to reading your submissions!

29/11/2018

We would like to thank all student researchers and academicians who have already submitted their pieces to the Future of Pakistan Journal! We are receiving an overwhelming number of submissions and are very excited to read them.

The FoP Journal will be published in March 2019, as the first student-sourced academic journal featuring original and credible research on Pakistan as an independent site of Knowledge Production, published by the esteemed London School of Economics Press, under the patronage of the honourable Advisor to the Prime Minister for Institutional Reforms & Austerity, Dr. Ishrat Hussain, who will be chairing our executive Advisory Council comprised of one of the best academicians and professors from across the world, with South Asia and Pakistan as their research focus.

Please send your submissions no later than 15th January, 2019, at [email protected]

We look forward to your submissions.

22/11/2018

Dear Members,

It is our utmost pleasure to announce the official call for submissions for the Future of Pakistan Journal, the first student-sourced publication in history to host academic material on Pakistan from Pakistani students. The FoP Journal is a platform established for Pakistani students studying abroad to participate in the transformative process of critical thinking and narrative-building whilst breaking new ground in academia. The FoP Journal will be published by the esteemed LSE Press, with the honourable Advisor to the Prime Minister for Institutional Reforms & Austerity, Dr. Ishrat Hussain as the Patron of the publication.

Please find attached the submission guidelines along with other necessary details on the Future of Pakistan Journal, launching March 2019.
Deadline to send in your research pieces is Tuesday, January 15th, 2019!

We look forward to your submissions!

02/11/2018

Dear Members,
PISA is finally on Twitter! Follow us at https://twitter.com/pisapakistan and be heard as part of the largest international student-led platform on political and civic engagement in Pakistan!

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