Brief Profile of Salman Yousaf Khan

Profile : Salman Yousaf Khan

PROFILE

SALMAN YOUSAF KHAN (GOLRA) Advocate High Court Ex- Candidate Member National Assembly, NA-48, Islamabad CEO The Pleaders CEO Humanity Assistance & Relief Trust

Salman Yousaf Khan is a practicing High Court Lawyer, Social Worker and a Politician from Islamabad, Pakistan.

Legal Experience

Salman Yousaf Khan is practicing the legal profession since 2009. He has experience of appearing in different courts of Pakistan in different cities in variety of cases. In recent years he has dealt with civil cases, family cases, guardian cases, criminal cases, corporate cases, employment cases, consumer cases, banking cases and so on. He also passed exam and interview of Civil Judge cum Judicial Magistrate conducted by Islamabad High Court in 2012. However, he was not allocated the post because of safarish system.

Social Work Experience

Salman Yousaf Khan is member of Youth Parliament of Pakistan since 2009. He is Founder & CEO of Humanity Assistance & Relief Trust (HART). He founded this organization in 2012. He is also Founder & CEO of ‘The Pleaders’ which is an organization working on legal awareness and human rights. He is founder of Promote Pakistan Project and Coalition to Promote Pakistan Project. He has been very active on the implementation of Article 19-A in coalition with CPDI NGO. Similarly he has been very vocal on the local government system and its implementation in Islamabad in coalition with PATTAN NGO. In 2011 he was part of Seed Pakistan which was a ngo headed by Laila Zuberi. He arranged several events under that organization as a team member.

Political Experience

Salman Yousaf Khan contested General Elections for the post of Member National Assembly (MNA) in Pakistan on May 11, 2013 as the youngest candidate of NA-48 Islamabad. During his campaign he addressed several corner meetings in the constituency. He is still very active in his constituency and constantly meeting people in political circles to make grounds for next elections.

Salman Yousaf Khan's session with the Youth of KPK

DEMOCRACY FOR YOUTH

Session Report

May 23, 2014 at Hotel Grand Peshawar

PEAD Foundation organized an event on Democracy from 22^nd to 24^th of May 2014 at Hotel Grand Peshawar. This report is related with the full day session conducted by Salman Yousaf Khan on 23^rd 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:-

Profiles: Salman Yousaf Khan

https://www.facebook.com/lawyer.salman

https://www.facebook.com/salman.y.khan

https://www.facebook.com/AdvocateSalmanKhanGolra

Twitter

https://twitter.com/LawyerGolra

Co-Trainer’s Profile

Muhammad Ahsan

https://www.facebook.com/M.AHSANULHAQ?fref=ts

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 22^nd 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:

-          Pead Foundation

-          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.