AIESEC Karachi

Exchange Team Leaders '08!

2008-09-20T23:12:00.004+06:00

This year Exchange in AIESEC in Karachi will boom. As VP Exchange, I can promise you that. But how so? Where is this confidence coming from? Who's going to kick some serious ass?!

I'ma tell you WHO!

Its 5 really sexy people who've risen to the challenge and are ready to take Exchange to a completely new level!

I PRESENT TO YOU

THE EXCHANGE TEAM LEADERS OF 2008

Kiran Suria

Amena Jafri

Saadi Agha

Danish Amjad

Shahzad Shahid

!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Congratulations to all of you

NOW GO RAISE!!!

YEHAAA AIESEC IN KARACHI!!!!!! :D

LCong - Special People!

2008-09-19T01:27:00.004+06:00

LCong in Karachi had two very special people this time around!

Introducing...

Adeel Hasan a.k.a Lollay
LCP AIESEC in Lahore!

Whattay sexy boy he is!

Adeel conducted a session about opportunities available in
AIESEC networks around the globe

Incidentally, it was called "Grab it now"
Pun intended.
Okay, not!
But why not jee, why not :)

And the other special person was none other than our very own
AMENA JAFRI

who was awarded

BEST DELEGATE!!!!

YAYYY AMENAAA :)

We hope to find many more special people at NYDS '08!
Could you be one of them?

AIESEC on the Radio!

2008-09-19T01:01:00.005+06:00

Ever tuned in FM 106.6? Well tune in now, every Monday at 2 pm if you want to hear a show all about AIESEC!

Hosted by myself, the show is called Point of View and the theme is almost always about change makers, be they our interns, EB, MC or members like yourself!We discuss many issues, experiences and aspirations of one day changing Pakistan.

I would like to thank everyone who’s been a guest on this show and encourage more people to come on over some day to share their point of view!

Lipstick! Smack that

2008-09-19T00:35:00.002+06:00

As if being an AIESECer wasn’t good enough, we’re celebrities too now!

Sohail Salim made it to the finals in a reality TV show competition on GEO. His last and most crucial task was to make a short film which had to kick ass if he wanted to win. Did it kick ass? Hell yes! Because I was in it! Haha. Kidding, I played a small role. But our interns played bigger roles! Dressed in crazy hip clothes, beautified with make up done by professionals, they were all lights-camera-action!

Don’t you wish you were on eXchange right now ;)

MC Support - Corporate Lunch!

2008-09-17T23:03:00.007+06:00

AIESEC provides leadership opportunities like no other organization. Irrespective of whether you’re already in a leadership role, you can take upon new ones every day.

AIESEC Karachi is proud to say that its Executive Body members are not limited to their portfolio work. How is this so? Well, every year the MC holds a Corporate Lunch to which it invites a multitude of companies to promote AIESEC in Pakistan. To facilitate this event the MC selects one member from all 3 Local Committees. This year, the candidates were from Karachi and Lahore. Guess who took the cake?

KARACHI BABY!

All hail VP M&C, Biya Shadab

for becoming MC Support for the Corporate Lunch!

You ROCK babe ;D~

Team Nacho's First Realisation!

2008-08-31T01:08:00.004+06:00

What could be better than a realisation at the beginning of your VP term! Nothing!

And AIESEC Karachi owes it all to Rabayl Manzoor!

Rabayl's been kicking everyones ass when it comes to AIESEC work, and she's done it yet again! CONGRATULATIONS!

... And now, the reason we're all celebrating

I present to you
The absolutely gorgeous
charming
witty
enthusiast
man with a cause

PASCAL HUBATKA!!!!!!!!

Isn't he to die for ;)

Organising Committee for LCong

2008-08-18T22:48:00.003+06:00

Karachi had its first ever local conference this July.

The theme of Local Congress/LCong was to “Move it” and we did indeed, but the most moving around was done by the Organising Committee itself.

Saadi Agha was OCP and Shahzad Shahid was OCVP

We would like to, once again, thank the OC for their dedication and hard work.

WOOHOO for Saadi and Shezi!

Team Nacho Special Additions!

2008-08-18T21:44:00.002+06:00

After bidding farewell to VP - X, Rustom Irani
and the resignation of VP - M&C, Sohail Salim

Team Nacho
Proudly presents

Its newest and sexiest additions

Biya Shadab
(VP - M&C)

&

Tabinda Baig
(VP - X)

GO NACHOS!!!!!

2007-10-03T02:09:00.000+05:00

AIESEC Newies!!

After a massive three weeks of work, play, work, and work

AIESEC in Karachi is proud to announce its

New Recruits!

Abdul Azeem Bilwany
Adeel Malik
Aimen Saeed Baloch
Aimen Waqar
Alefiyah Rajbhoy
Alisa Ispahany
Amena Jafri
Ammar Bin Kalim
Anam Inayat
Azka Waqar
Danish Amjad
Iqbal Shadab
Kamran Aziz
Kiran Suria
Mariam Virani
Mohammed Junaid Ahmed
Nadia Baloch
Nilofar Varzgani
Onaiza Raza
Qurratulain Shattari
Rustom Irani
Saad Khan
Saadi Agha

Saroash Khurram
Shahzad Shahid Latif
Sohail Salim
Tania Shaikh
Touseef Janjua

So there you have it...

the next generation

of AIESECers in Karachi!

And the thanks goes to the following people who've made this all possible:

Tabinda Baig

Rabayl Manzoor

Haider Raza

Ahmed Rauf

Jamilur Rehman

Saher Quadri

Atif Azim

Nida Iqbal

Fayez Jangda

With special thanks to

Aun Rizvi & Zafirah Mohammad

And One More...

2007-08-03T00:39:00.000+05:00

Ladies and Gentleman,

Please Welcome

Franky Ho from Hongkong!!!

Franky is here to work with MTI Consulting and he will be in Pakistan for the next three months..

Dont miss your chance to be a part of yet another Life Changing Experience..

Franky is staying at the MC house and we will post his cell number as soon as he gets one Hes very eager to learn and experience the pakistani culture and know pakistani people - Dont hesitate to contact him.

2007-07-16T03:26:00.000+05:00

Typical question from a typical AIESEC leadership position application:

“It’s the middle of your term and you have not reached your desired targets and results. Your team is demotivated. What do you do?”

I have asked this question a thousand times, when selecting members for my EB, when recruiting new members and sometimes to myself. More often than not, I end up with another question as a response to this:

“Why am I in AIESEC?”

If I just consider my current scenario, I have many reasons to justify my quitting the organization:

My friends complain that I don’t have enough time for them
My parents complain that I am not spending time with them
One of my best friends, and chief motivators, quit AIESEC less than a month ago
My study schedule is going to be whacked because of AIESEC commitments
I don’t have enough time for my freelance graphics gig
The current situation of the Local Committee is less than ideal; with losses, resigning members and angry stakeholders

Six valid reasons for me reconsider my staying in AIESEC. Six indicators that I should get out before things get really messed up.

Yet I’m still here, fighting the odds, taking chances, motivating others to move forward.

An AIESEC alumnus once told me:

“The position of Local Committee President is the loneliest leadership position you can get in AIESEC”

Fortunately for me, he told me this after I got elected.

And his words have proven true so far. This is definitely a position you cannot professionally relate with any other AIESEC member. To be held accountable for a Local Committee’s mere existence is in itself such a staggering responsibility that the rest of your “duties” per se kind of blur in to the background.

So the question does a 180 and comes back in to my face:

Why am I in AIESEC?

I guess the answer is simple. To prove that it can be done. To show others that against the odds, against people’s expectations, you can rise.

Where else would I get an opportunity like this?

To convince myself and a team of six others to lead a community of 30 (and growing) people in to achieving their potential and from thereon making an impact around them and within them.

Of all my friends, the truest ones are those who believe in what I’m doing and are sticking by me. My folks complain about me not spending time with them; but in the little time that we do spend together, they tell me that they’re seeing an enormous growth in me. I promised my friend that I’d try my best to remove the obstacles that made her resign. I’ve already decided which electives I want to take in my final year and have started working on my thesis project. And the freelance market is like quicksand – the more you move, the further it pulls you in.

As for my sixth reason, talk to me in February 2008 – you’ll see how I fared on that one.

Saaim Mazher Khan
Local Committee President for 2007-2008
AIESEC in Karachi, Pakistan

2 NEW ADDITIONS

2007-07-07T15:31:00.001+05:00

AIESEC KARACHI

WELCOMES

ALI SETO

MICHAEL KAMAU

What it means to be an intl MC member...

2007-05-19T18:34:00.000+05:00

While I've only been in Jordan for 4 days..there have been several thoughts running through my head about how it feels to shift into the role of an MC member...

..especially being an MC member from Pakistan.

While I haven't started full-fledged work yet and am currently in transition; I feel inexorably proud of being from Pakistan. There are several reasons why - the foremost is being able to share my culture as being from Pakistan. I've met members from both LCs in Jordan (Amman and Irbid) - and everytime I answer a question about Pakistan, Karachi, the language, the trends, education..I feel more and more proud of being a Pakistani.

The second element is having been part of an expansion country. For me to be able to connect with members and share my experiences in an expansion country is extremely exciting. The passion that exists within members who want to learn, strive to achieve the best for AIESEC in Jordan reminds me somewhat of AIESEC Pakistan's first year; however it would be unfair to call it similar because of different realities.

To be able to reflect back and remind members of their place in history as being the first generation of AIESEC members and leaders in the country, talk about challenges and how to overcome these, and just connect over the various elements of AIESEC that bind the network together is what has made my four days here so great.

Everyday, we are living an experience that brings us closer to achieving a vision that we have set for ourselves personally, and for the AIESEC entity that we work with.

For those of you who are confused about where your AIESEC experience will take you - there are several roads, several of which you may never consider, several which you are unsure of, and perhaps only one which is the right one for you. I am living this experience with the innate knowledge that this is the right one for me - and I hope and dream to one day seeing more of you embark on this experience and feel the joy of representing your culture and AIESEC country in this way.

Love from Amman,
Saba

me with my amazing MCe team!
(left to right: Saba - MCVP ER and F, Momani, MCVP PD and X, Oksana - MCP)

Team CDC Intro from GBM!

2007-05-18T22:21:00.001+05:00

After the extremely short video at AGM 2007, we proudly present,

.:: The Team CDC Intro Video ::.

Note: No AIESECers were harmed in the making of this video.

2007-05-06T15:33:00.000+05:00

Make way for new batch of AIESECers!!

After deliberations that have run longer than expected, we are proud to announce the new AIESECers, recruited from IBA:

Incoming Exchange - Corporate Sector
Ozair Bilgrami
Mohsin Khan
Ahmed Rauf

Incoming Exchange - Development Sector
Romessa Mirza
Arsalan
Rabayl Manzoor

Outgoing Exchange
Saher Shehzad
Sarwar Hasan
Haider Raza

External Relations
Ali Afzaal
Fayez Jangda
Khurram Merchant

People Development
Jamil-ur-Rehman
Nida

You can catch them at the next GBM - which is just around the corner!

Induction!

2007-04-29T23:22:00.000+05:00

The EB 07-08 finished interviews yesterday for new members and now very soon we will have some extremely bright, motivated and energetic individuals working with us. The best thing about this is that they're from a different college, One of the best colleges in Karachi and that's an added advantage for us.

AIESEC Karachi needs some new blood flowing through it and that's exactly what these new members will bring. The Team is VERY VERY excited and we hope to reach new heights in this coming year!

Lahore has an LCP!

2007-04-24T01:12:00.000+05:00

Congratulations

Hummayun Javed

on becoming LCP for AIESEC Lahore!

Best Wishes from AIESEC Karachi

20 Million - Experience Pakistan!

2007-04-12T21:27:00.000+05:00

EXPERIENCE PAKISTAN

JNC 2007!

2007-04-04T23:39:00.000+05:00

Congratulations to AIESEC Lahore

...the hosts of JNC 2007!...

While I'm rather sad that I'll be missing the conference, and legislation (you can all go thank your lucky stars =P) - I'm really excited that a year's passed by so fast and we're so close to JNC! Best of luck to Yahya, OCP, for the conference; and for OC selection!

To Be a Full Member =)

2007-04-04T00:41:00.000+05:00

To Be A Full Member

- by Emad, from the MC Pakistan blog

AIESEC in Pakistan is a full member country - What does that even mean?

For 2 years, numerous people, many of whom will be forgotten in the pages of history, worked day and night with utmost commitment to have us see this happen in front of our own eyes. Every one of those 'members' made a difference in their own little but significant way. Each of them deserves the credit for it. This post has been long due. I write this with a lot of pride on behalf of every person that made this happen. I also write this with the gratefulness for having had the honour to be there where it happened. Let me describe some scenes from IPM 2007.

Global legislation takes place towards the end of IPM. One of the most inspiring and powerful moments before that is the elections for President of AIESEC International. It is also a moment of pride for those countries that have earned the right to make this decision.
Below you see the ballot for PAI voting in the hands of one such country. But it wasn't Pakistan. Not till then.

This was also a moment where we captured a rare occassion. A couple of MCPs that did not have a vote but still had a feeling of pride much larger - Because they had with them their successors, who would be able to have that ballot in their hand. Captured, you see myself and Gasper (MCP of AIESEC in Tanzania), and Nida and Stanley (MCPe of AIESEC in Tanzania) - Yes, there is much to smile about!

And then finally, the moment arrived. After a legislative session that lasted over 9 hours, it was time for global plenary to decide whether a country had earned the right to sit among them as full members. The membership subcommittee (that evaluates if membership criteria had been met) gave its recommendation, the MCP from the partner country AIESEC in India (Rishabh), spoke for the motion...

And the MCP elect of Pakistan said a few words...

And then like magic, everything transformed. AIESEC in Pakistan was given a unanimous vote to join the association.

And the celebrations began!

But what now...? So those people that got us here played their part. What is it that every member of AIESEC in Pakistan today going to do that is going to be at par with that achievement?

Everyone has their own answer to this, but for me it's quite simple: There's more to be done. Much more. Becoming a full member is a stepping stone, but there are more such steps that need to be created. And it will not be any easier. Every 'member' will have to play their own little but significant part for us to be able to build that next stone and many more will have to work even harder for us to climb it. Yet, in our everyday work, we often forget the contribution that our actions are making to the organization at large and how that adds to the impact each of us is having on ourselves and on the societies at large.

The year has started. You have all the tools that you need in order to be able to do a great job. All you need to do is exhibit commitment. You don't need people to tell you what to do or how to do it. The members that got us here certainly did a decent job, not having those people. The only difference is that now, you are ABLE to be able to find that information in order to maximize your learning, contribution and experience. But you see, at the end of the day, it is each of you that needs to drive their own experience - no one else will. So my recommendation to you is to get out there and fulfill the promise that was made to you by AIESEC; If you really think about it, you constitute AIESEC!

A dear friend of mine, a personal inspiration, and of course a key part of why we are here, Tori (MCP 05/06) used to mention something very simple: "The more you put into AIESEC, the more you get out of it".

Celebrate your achievements and use them as motivation to achieve more.

Cheers,

Emad

AGM 2007!

2007-03-15T02:10:00.000+05:00

Annual General Meeting 2007 took place on Tuesday - an emotional evening where we passed on our legacy to a new EB team - who we are so excited about to have as our successors!

AIESEC Karachi!

EB 2006-2007: Evolve, Empower, Excel!
Naveen, Taha, Sharmeen, Rabia, Haris, Saba

EB 2007 - 2008: Creme de la Creme
Khurram, Tabinda, Omar, Saaim, Sadaf, Agha

Here's to a fantastic year! :)

What? Two Words?

2007-03-03T00:41:00.000+05:00

It is with great excitement that I announce that today, at our famed Friday transition session, the EB 06/07 thoroughly defeated the EB 07/08 at playing Dumb Charades; to the extent that I have now titled myself Queen of Dumb Charades and am extremely happy at the level of communication my team has reached throughout the past one year!

I don't think we made it any easier for the new EB by giving Khurram 'Evolve, empower, excel' to play out for the team..

Over and out..

The Party of the YEAR!

2007-03-02T10:53:00.000+05:00

After 2 years of hard work, a lot of committment and passion the
vision put up by a bunch of excited AIESECers at SDC 2005 became reality...

"We constantly strive to achieve full membership status by IPM 2007 in Egypt"

On Monday morning, 26 February 2007,
AIESEC Pakistan achieved

..:: FULL MEMBERSHIP STATUS ::..

So, now it is time to
CELEBRATE!!! The is the PARTY of the YEAR and
YOU have to be there!!

Expect...

....a party long into the night...

...loads of surprises....

....BBQ and drinks...

...members from both Lahore and Karachi...

...a memorable night...

Where: MC Mansion
When: Saturday, March 3 - 20:00
What you should bring:
Snacks and a great mood!!
RSVP: Thursday 23:00 to this joanna.garbalinska@aiesec.net or call/message her

See You!!!!
--
Joanna Garbalinska
MCVP PD/OGX

2007-02-26T11:21:00.000+05:00

The last sentence of AIESEC Pakistan's Vision 2006 reads:

"We are constantly striving to achieve full membership by IPM 2007 in Egypt"

Looking back to the evening in Karachi when a group of very exhausted and very inspired individuals created this vision..

..sketched how they saw AIESEC Pakistan in the year 2010..

..questioned whether all this was actually possible..

Today, we have achieved this :)

Tomorrow, you must constantly strive to uphold this membership - to become a voice in the network through the power of your convictions and through the quality AIESEC experiences you live and provide.

AIESEC in Pakistan - Congratulations!

2007-02-25T20:42:00.000+05:00

Look what I found while browsing IPM live - our very cool Presidents, Nida and Emad at Global Village!

P.S: What is up with Emad's pose?! :P