Pakistanis want a better future, just like us U.S.-Muslim
Engagement Initiative Leadership Team Member Aakif Ahmad and
U.S.-Pakistan Leaders Forum participant Cynthia P. Schneider co-
authored an article about how little average Americans and
Pakistanis know about one another and how much they have in
common.  Published on CNN, May 18, 2011, it is entitled,
"Pakistanis want a better future, just like us".  Read it here.
Pakistanis want a better future, just like us by Cynthia P.
Schneider and Aakif Ahmad, Special to CNN May 18, 2011  Editor's
note: Cynthia P. Schneider, a former U.S. ambassador to the
Netherlands, is a distinguished professor of diplomacy at
Georgetown University, a senior nonresident fellow at the
Brookings Institution and co-director of the MOST Resource
Center, which provides information about Muslims to the American
film and television industry. Aakif Ahmad is Vice President and
co-founder of Convergence a firm delivering consensus-based
solutions to issues of national and international po