Texas: A well-known American business figure, and Republican leader, Javed Anwar has said that Pakistani doctors living in the United States are among the benefactors of the country.
Everyone will have to take individual responsibility for the development of Pakistan and its young generation. If the young generation is equipped with knowledge and expertise in different fields of life, the country will automatically develop.
Javed Anwar, speaking as the chief guest at the inauguration ceremony of the Social Justice, Health, Advocacy, Poverty Alleviation Education (U.S Shape) in the city of Dallas extended his felicitations to Dr. Rao Kamran Ali and his team who realized this need and helped Pakistan. This organization has been established to provide opportunities to the young generation.
He said that if you have courage and passion, no one can stop you from progressing. “The biggest living example of this is myself,” he said.
Javed Anwar announced a donation of 100,000 dollars to US Shape on this occasion and said that if doctors spend only a few thousand dollars every year on providing higher education opportunities to the youth of Pakistan, then we will see a big change in Pakistan.
On this occasion, Masood Khan, the Ambassador of Pakistan to America, said that he is extremely grateful to the US State Department, which has made special arrangements to speed up the visa processing of Pakistani students.
He said that although the rate of arrival of Pakistani students to the United States for higher education is very low compared to other countries, but he hopes that with the efforts of the State Department and especially US Shape, this rate will increase in the next few years. It will double.
He said that he is grateful to Dr. Rao Kamran and US Shape for starting this excellent service.
Naniel Lain, a member of the Pakistan Desk in the US State Department, said that the US believes in the equal promotion of education throughout the world and in the last few months, millions of foreigners have studied from more than 4,000 colleges and universities in the US. While, some 8 thousand Pakistanis have come to America and received higher education.
He said that although this number is very small for Pakistanis, but this initiative has brought Pakistan to the eighteenth position in the world.
He said that staff there to guide the youth who want to study in America, which is also providing them with financial guidance from admission, but for the last few months there was a problem of issuing visas, which the state has to solve.
The department has issued special instructions after which the process of issuing visas has been expedited, especially education visas are being tried to be made possible.
He said that last month, the American Consulate in Karachi also worked on Saturdays for the issuance of consular education visas.
On this occasion, Rao Kamran Ali, the founder of US Shape, highlighted the aims and objectives of the establishment of US Shape and said that effective change can be brought about in the development of Pakistan only through education.
He said that as an active worker of APPNA, an organization of Pakistani doctors, he made a lot of efforts for higher education of Pakistani students in America, but due to lack of proper planning and lack of interest of the members, this project could not be successful. There was hope.
He said realizing this need, he has laid the foundation of US Shape, which stands for Social Justice, Health, Advocacy, Poverty Alleviation Education.
Rao Kamran Ali thanked all the guests for their presence on this occasion, especially Syed Javed Anwar and Pakistani Ambassador Masood Khan and the representative of the State Department. Shields were also presented to the guests in this event which lasted for more than an hour while the event was moderated by Sara Kamran.
