You will shine and you will achieve whatever you want if you keep working hard and dreaming more. Don't let anybody destroy your peace of mind. You are on the right path to pursue your dreams. You have to be ready to do whatever you are interested in. You are the hero of your family, society, community and your country. Try to be proactive, self starter, quick learner and self motivator and don't have the fear of taking risk. If you want to touch the sky, you have to accept that you may fall down so many times. Regardless of how much people and your community interfere, be like stone in front...

My thoughts have always been full of great dreams and goals, but the fear of failure, the fear of limitations, the fear of disbelief, the fear of a mysterious tomorrow, the fear of the no, have always been with my dreams and goals, sometimes I talk about my dreams and goals with others, most of them laugh or say: You can’t do it, it is impossible or it is not your job. Apart from these words, the world in which I live though speechless but tells me the same things every day. The world in which war, restrictions, inequalities, disbeliefs, war, and hatred are the first words, and in the meantime...

Tolerance, insight, flexibility and humility are the four pillars upon which the foundation of leadership stand, and all of these aspects are the culmination of two words: ‘Intercultural understanding’. When either of them falls, the whole foundation crumbles. In the 21st century, in which the world has become a global village with diverse cultures mixing with each other like clashing waves, I believe it is doubtless that a unifying platform is essential, a platform that can help rally people of different backgrounds, a platform that helps the communication between all races and creeds so that...

As the saying goes, “Home is not a place- it is a feeling.” I was an adolescent of 13 when I was rid of that feeling and was sent across one of the most hostile borders from my beloved country Afghanistan over to Pakistan. It happened in a flash and now I see it as a flashback, helpless as ever but now somewhat at peace with how things turned out After some threats from the Taliban, my school was forced to shut down. Consequently, my parents saw it fit to send me to the best international school in the region, in Pakistan. I arrived at that school with a few personal belongings, and survived...