Sarwar Bari the National Coordinator has been leading Pattan since its inception. His areas of expertise are Election monitoring (local and general elections); assessment of governance and political parties; community empowerment and development; social mobilization and participation; institutional development; leadership and management; research, advocacy/lobbying and networking; strategic planning and development planning; monitoring and evaluation; rural development and poverty alleviation; and disaster preparedness and risk reduction. He is an acclaimed social activist and is known for his thought provoking articles and opinions published in numerous newspapers nationwide. Furthermore, he has presented his research papers in Regional and International conferences. He has maintained and still maintains memberships of renowned Regional and International networks and founded numerous networks. He served as the Chairman of the Free and Fair Election Network (FAFEN) twice. | |
Rabia Ghani is a development practitioner with over 18 years of experience in Governance and disasters mitigation & resilience building. She has joined Pattan in October 2012 and is currently working as a Gender Coordinator with a special focus on issues related to gender, ethnicity & religious minorities. She works towards inclusion of marginalised groups in political processes, reducing marginalization through institutional development, para-legal interventions, media, art & cultural activities focusing on diversity, and respecting cultural sensitivity. | |
William Pervaiz started his career as an artist and later joined the advertising world as graphic designer. He kept on exploring his talent as an actor, playwright and theatre director. He joined Pattan in 2003 as coordinator culture and arts. He has written more 25 stage plays on women, human rights and social issues. He has written more than 35 street theatres and these have been performed more than 3000 times on different occasions. He is passionate about working towards political issues related to the common man as well as women rights. | |
Hailing from Chitral, Muhammad Ismail Khan has been working with Pattan since 2001. His professional experience spans accounts, book keeping, finance, budgeting, forecasting and internal & external audit as well as taxation. He manages finance and human resources at Pattan currently. He is particularly passionate about advocating equal opportunity for men and women. He also believes in fighting against child labour and the institution of dowry. | |
Parveen Latif joined Pattan in 2012. She was previously a teacher. She worked as a Social Mobiliser and an observer during the 2013 elections. She has also worked extensively with the Labour Quomi Movement. She understand the Faisalabad region really well. She is passionate about combatting social discrimination. | |
Muhammad Tanveer has been working for Pattan since the past ten years. He works as a cook in the Multan office. He also ventures into the community for mobilization when required. | |
Saeed Khan has been working in Pattan since 2017. He has worked on different positions like Project Coordinator, District Coordinator, and currently working as IT and Admin manager. | |
Yasir Hussain has been working with Pattan since 2020.He is currently working as Office Manager. He previously worked with pattan as constituency coordinator in General election 2018 and as a surveyor in VFL Project. | |
Ayaz Wagha holds a post-graduate degree in Sociology. He has been working as social development professional and researcher with over 15 years in different organiztion in Pakistan. His areas of capability are elections observation oversight and reforms, governance monitoring, right based advocacy and capacity building of disaster prone communities towards disaster preparedness & DRR. Currently he is working as Network Coordinator for Coalition-38 a national network of CSOs. | |
Ameer Jan has been working in Pattan Since October 2022. He is working as security guard on Phulgran Plot | |
Sohail Masih has been working in Pattan Since September 2022. He is working as driver. |
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