Introduction

Hello everyone,

Let me take this chance to introduce myself and the Youth Parliament's Political wing, functioning from Karachi, Pakistan.

Youth Parliament is a NGO, initiated by the youth based TV anchor Rizwan Jaffer, with the following objectives:

• Inspiring the youth to discover & explore their potentials to become distinguished individuals.


• Bring various culture, religion and political backgrounds at one platform and have a dialogue to create harmony peace among them.


• Focusing on freedom of expression, where you can expose yourselves, share your views, your experiences; enrich ideas on national and international level.


• Probe the issues & provide the best solution to higher government authorities.

Youth Parliament has a 2 hour Live TV show on Business Plus which is on air on Saturday 7pm and repeats on sunday 9pm. This is where most of issues are taken up and a panel from our members sits and discusses the topic with Renowned Politicians, Social personalities and other various people who are influential and related to the topic under discussion.

Besides the TV show, Youth Parliament holds various conventions and other events and has been helping out the provincial government with its events regularly specially the Ministry of Youth affairs.

The Political Wing of this Youth Parliament of which i happen to be the Chairman, is working towards creating a liason between poltics, political parties and the youth. With student politics being in a shape that it is, much like lollywood if i may say, and the perception Student Political Parties have amongst the mass youth of the nation it should not come as a surprise that the Youth thinks of Politics as some thing that is far beyond their reach and is something to be taken care of by the elite. Keeping this in my mind the Poltical Wing tries to attarct members who are Politically motivated but have an open mind and a unbiased view. Youth is encouraged to be politcally aware and take active steps like forwarding their opinions or reservations either directly to the concerned ministries, political parties or through the media such as these blogs, tv show and newspapers.

I must take this opportunity to acknowledge the encouragement we have received from the Political Parties and a few Provinvincial Ministries we have been in contact with.

Looking forward to new members and bringing out the voice of youth to you all!

Regards,

Anzer Husain

syedanzer@gmail.com