Session Report
May 23, 2014 at Hotel Grand Peshawar
PEAD Foundation organized an event
on Democracy from 22nd to 24th of May 2014 at Hotel Grand
Peshawar. This report is related with the full day session conducted by Salman
Yousaf Khan on 23rd May 2014 in support with Mr. Muhammad Ahsan as
co-trainer.
Trainer’s Profile
The trainer was a young lawyer,
politician and social worker from Islamabad. His profiles and pages can be
accessed on the following links:-
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Profiles: Salman Yousaf Khan
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Twitter
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Co-Trainer’s Profile
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Muhammad Ahsan
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Participants
The participants were the
students of KPK mostly from Peshawar, Jamrood Khyber Agency and FATA. They were
aged from 18 to 25.
Reflection
Proceedings for the day were
initiated by Ms. Shagufta Gul of Pead Foundation. She had the session of
reflection with the students of Peshawar. In that session the trainer also had
an idea about the sessions conducted on 22nd May 2014.
Introduction
The trainer started his
session at 9:30 with the introduction. He first introduced himself to the
participants and then he had an interactive introduction session with the
participants for few minutes.
Segments
There were two segments of
the Trainer’s session. One of them was on Democracy
and the other was on
Democracy for youth.
Democracy
The trainer used multimedia
projector for his session on democracy. There was a presentation with having
slides on definition of democracy, explanation of the concept of democracy,
types of democracy, examples of democratic countries, Islamic concept of
democracy, Hazrat Umar Farooq (RZA)’s democracy, pre-amble of Pakistan’s Constitution
and democracy in Pakistan. There was a Tea break at the end of session at 11:00
am till 11:15 am.
Activity
There was an activity after
the tea break. There were four groups made among the participants. They
collectively made charts on democracy explaining their ideas about the concept.
The session was mentored by Mr. Salman Yousaf Khan and his co-trainer Muhammad
Ahsan. Each of the participants was given opportunity to speak. The
participants gave presentations in Urdu, English and Pashto as they were given
liberty to use any of the language they preferred.
Lunch
There was lunch and Prayer
Break from 1:00 pm to 2:20 pm.
Democracy for Youth
After the lunch break the
second segment of the topic was presented by Mr. Salman Yousaf Khan,
Ex-Candidate for Member National Assembly, NA-48, Islamabad. The presentation
had slides related with youth activism, the role of students in the Pakistan
Movement, role of students of Jamia tul Islamia and steps to be taken for the
prosperity of Pakistan.
There was a motivational
video played on the life of Quaid-e-Azam in the session. The trainer asked the
students about their opinion regarding Quaid-e-Azam. The students replied that “he
was a good leader, we salute him”.
Another motivational video
was played in this session with the song “Lazim hai k ham be dekhain gay” in
the voice of Jawad Ahmad. The students showed their hope that things will
change in Pakistan one day.
Ending
The Trainer Mr. Salman
Yousaf Khan and his co-trainer Mr. Muhammad Ahsan thanked:
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Pead Foundation
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Students of KPK
For hosting such a wonderful
event and for learning the concept of democracy with attention. Finally a video
was played to end the session with the following words “nikal laye hein ham
kashti tofan say nikal k, meray bacho iss mulk ko rakhna sambhal k”…. Contact
Details were shared with best wishes from both ends... Tea was served at 4:00
pm…
Outcome
One of the outcomes of the
event was that the youth looked determined to do something for Pakistan.
Equality, justice, rule of law, honesty, morality, tolerance, unity, faith and
discipline all came under discussion in the session. High dedication to work
for Pakistan through youth activism is observed in the participants. Further it
is expected that the participants will promote whatever positive they learned
from the session.
The End
