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organization that he co-founded in 1992. The
Foundation set up and operates eight schools in under-served areas of Balochistan. He remained a Vice-President of both the Pakistan Tennis Federation as well as Adventure Foundation Pakistan as well as being a National Commissioner of the Pakistan Boy Scouts He led the first-ever Students Goodwill Delegation to India (1980) and in 1989 he founded the Pakistan Scrabble Association; his effort led to several junior world champions. AKif was the Vice-President, East-West Center Participants’ Association, Hawaii (1999) & is currently the head of the EWC Alumni Assn., Islamabad Chapter. He has remained a program presenter for radio and TV with over 50 TV appearances including a 30 part series titled Values & Tenets of Islam (2010) and a 20-part series, Islam Today on Pakistan Television (2002–03). Currently, he hosts an oral history series at the Institute of Policy Studies under the title Living Scripts which documents the lives and times of leading Pakistani civil servants; so far more than 30 sessions (each of more than two hours have been recorded).
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Thought, 1999, pp. 398. 5. ‘Allama bil Qalam: Arabic Calligraphy in Pakistan (with Imran Ahmad Siddiqui), Ministry of Foreign Affairs Pakistan 2012. 6. Breaking the Breakers, Governance & Public Policy Case Studies, IPS Press, Islamabad, 2021. 7. Ancient Pakistan – Exhibition Catalogue, Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Pakistan, 2016. 8. Editorial consultant to USIA for the book Shumali Amrika kay Musalman (authorized translation of Y. Haddad and Jane Smith (eds.), The Muslim Communities of North America, Karachi, Oxford University Press, 2002, pp. 682
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Syed Akif takes a keen personal interest in intellectual dialogue and writing and non-profit activities. In the latter role, he is a board member of the
University of Management & Technology (# 1 in research ranking in Pakistan) as well as a foundational board member of Taleem Foundation, an
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Pakistani Eyes, Na’ay Ufaq Publications, 192, pp. 266. 10. Khurram Murad, Dying and Living for Allah, Leicester, the Islamic Foundation, Leicester, UK, 2001, pp 80. 11. To God Belong the Names Most Beautiful, Islamabad/ Washington, IRI/ Georgetown University, 2004.
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where he served for 23 months. This was a period of immense activity in the field. Under his supervision, Pakistani ratified the Paris
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