Greg Mortenson's Central Asia Institute brings Fozia Naseer from Kashmir to Montana State University
| September 8, 2008 |  View for printing |
Whirlwind journey for foreign student
Fozia Naseer is the first woman from her mountain village in Pakistan-controlled Kashmir, one of the world’s most isolated and militarized regions, to graduate from law school.
She is the first person from her village in Pakistan to travel to America. She’s also the first person from her village to own a laptop computer.
And now she’s the first woman from her village ever to make the trip halfway around the world to the United States.
“It is a big deal - most of all for a girl,” Naseer, 26, said after she arrived in Bozeman. “Not a single girl from my village is in the United States. Or in England. Or anywhere. I’m the first one.”
Naseer’s journey to this mountain community was engineered by the Bozeman-based Central Asia Institute https://www.ikat.org/ and built around a year of non-degree study at Montana State University. It has brought her farther from her lifelong home than she’s ever been.
By KARIN RONNOW Chronicle Staff Writer
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