🇺🇸 Business, 🇵🇰 Talent: Stewart Expands in Lahore!
American businesses drive innovation and advance global competitiveness. By employing over 1,000 Pakistani professionals in Punjab, Stewart demonstrates how U.S. companies are leveraging global talent and technology to boost efficiency and accelerate digital transformation. It’s also a testament to the trust American companies have in doing business here. The message is clear: Pakistan is open for business.
Consul General Stetson Sanders joined the inauguration of Stewart’s new Lahore office, welcoming the role American businesses are playing in expanding U.S.–Pakistan commercial ties.
The 🇺🇸, 🇬🇧, 🇨🇦, and 🇦🇺 jointly supported seven senior Pakistani police officers at the 63rd IAWP-International Association of Women Police’s Annual Training Conference. Superintendent of Police (SP) Aisha Butt presented her policing initiative to peers from 43 countries, showcasing Punjab’s police leadership on a global stage.
Strengthening ties with Pakistan’s next generation of police leaders, we’ve advanced a shared priority: capable law enforcement partnerships that support U.S. security interests in counterterrorism, counternarcotics, and transnational crime. #USAinPakistan
The @PakUSAlumni continues to build professional skills, connections, and opportunities in Pakistan, the United States, and beyond.
Public Affairs Officer Torrey Goad joined the closing ceremony of the PUAN National Summer Internship Program, celebrating interns who completed 12 weeks of practical workplace experience with PUAN alumni.
These exchanges are an investment in people – and in the skills and networks that can drive innovation, expand markets, strengthen U.S.-Pakistan economic ties, and create new opportunities for American businesses. We’re proud of all these alum have accomplished and look forward to seeing where their skills and experiences take them next! 🇺🇸🇵🇰 #USAinPakistan
The gathering brought American and Pakistani scholars together to exchange ideas, explore shared research interests, and build connections that can lead to lasting collaboration – from joint research and publications to institutional partnerships and student exchanges.
As the United States celebrates 250 years of independence, we recognize the enduring role universities, scholarship, and the exchange of ideas in American innovation and progress. Connecting American scholars with Pakistani academic partners builds relationships that extend beyond a single conference. 🇺🇸🇵🇰 #USAinPakistan #Freedom250
American scholarship and the open exchange of ideas continue to build connections around the world. 🇺🇸🎓
Public Affairs Officer Torrey Goad welcomed visiting U.S. professors, Association for Asian Students (AAS) leadership, @lifeatlums representatives, and academics from across Lahore and Punjab to a networking reception hosted by the U.S. Consulate General in connection with AAS-in-Asia 2026.
Featuring works by 75 artists, the exhibition highlighted the connection between Pakistan’s rivers, the communities they sustain, and recurring impacts of floods.
Over the years, U.S. assistance has provided food, shelter, clean water, medical supplies, and recovery support to communities affected by flooding across Pakistan. #USAinPakistan
#DYK? The United States has supported Pakistan through major floods in 2010, 2022, and 2025, and continues to stand with Pakistan in times of need. 🇺🇸🇵🇰
At “The Rivers Remember” exhibition in Lahore, CG Stetson Sanders reaffirmed U.S. solidarity with flood-affected communities and our longstanding partnership with Pakistan in flood response and recovery.
Over the coming days, American, Pakistani, and international scholars will share ideas, forge new connections, and lay the groundwork for collaborations that extend well beyond the conference. That is power of academic exchange – creating connections that endure long after the conference ends. 🇺🇸🇵🇰 #USAinPakistan
Scholarship connects people. 🇺🇸🇵🇰
Public Affairs Officer Torrey Goad welcomed U.S. scholars to AAS-in-Asia 2026 @lifeatlums, the first AAS-in-Asia conference ever held in Pakistan.
With scholars from 517 institutions across 37 countries, this landmark conference is the largest international event in the humanities and social sciences in Pakistan’s history.
In his opening remarks, PAO Torrey Goad highlighted the deep tradition of U.S.-Pakistan academic exchange – including the longstanding connections between U.S. and Pakistani institutions – and the power of scholars, students, and universities to build relationships that endure.
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As America begins its next 250 years, we remain focused on partnerships that strengthen American interests while creating new opportunities for Americans and Pakistanis alike. #LahoreF250#USAinPakistan
Freedom has powered 250 years of American innovation, creativity, and prosperity, and we are building on that momentum for the future. 🇺🇸
As we celebrate America’s 250th anniversary, CG Stetson Sanders and the U.S. Consulate General Lahore hosted entrepreneurs, business leaders, educators, cultural figures, media influencers, and partners from across Punjab at a Freedom 250 reception in Lahore to celebrate the ideas, values, and spirit of enterprise that continue to drive the United States forward.
Under the theme #LetFreedomRing, the evening celebrated the American spirit of entrepreneurship and innovation and the power of partnerships to advance trade, investment, economic opportunity, and shared prosperity.
Chargé d’Affaires Natalie Baker was pleased to welcome Catherine Connell as our new Deputy Chief of Mission. In partnership with CDA Baker, DCM Connell’s extensive diplomatic experience and deep knowledge of Pakistan from previous roles in Karachi and Lahore position her perfectly to support our ever-growing U.S.-Pakistan relationship. #USAinPakistan
ناظم الامور نیٹلی بیکر نے کیتھرین کونل کو ڈپٹی چیف آف مشن (ڈی سی ایم) کے طور پر خوش آمدید کہتے ہوئے خوشی محسوس کی۔ ناظم الامور بیکر کے ساتھ مل کر، ڈی سی ایم کونل کا وسیع سفارتی تجربہ اور کراچی اور لاہور میں سابق تعیناتیوں کی بدولت پاکستان کے بارے میں ان کی گہری واقفیت، انہیں ہمارے مسلسل بڑھتے ہوئے امریکہ-پاکستان تعلقات کو فروغ دینے کے لیے موزوں بناتی ہے۔
Investing in education means investing in Pakistan’s future. 🇺🇸🇵🇰
Consul General Stetson Sanders joined Tehzibul Akhlaq Trust President G.A. Sabri to break ground on a new Girls Hostel at Aligarh Public School’s Manga Campus and toured the future New Aligarh University site – highlighting expanded opportunities for Pakistan’s youth and the importance of strong educational institutions in building a prosperous future. #USAinPakistan
American businesses are helping build opportunity across Pakistan. 🇺🇸🇵🇰
Consul General Stetson Sanders met with emerging business leaders in Lahore to hear directly about the opportunities – and challenges – shaping Pakistan’s growing food and beverage, agriculture, technology, retail, and other sectors.
From supporting jobs and livelihoods to helping local entrepreneurs grow their businesses and incomes, American companies are contributing to communities across Pakistan. The U.S. Mission remains committed to strengthening commercial ties, supporting American businesses, and creating new opportunities for U.S.-Pakistan economic engagement. #USAinPakistan
#DYK? Pakistan is the second-largest export market for U.S. raw cotton, making it a key partner for America’s cotton industry and an important link in the global textile supply chain.
Consul General Stetson Sanders met with a visiting U.S. cotton delegation and representatives from Pakistan’s textile mills to explore opportunities for sustainable sourcing, traceability, innovation, and greater supply-chain transparency.
Through @COTTONUSAglobal, Cotton Council International (CCI) connects American cotton suppliers with Pakistani manufacturers, sharing U.S. expertise and innovative tools to help meet evolving global market expectations. Stronger industry-to-industry connections can create new commercial opportunities, support more transparent and resilient supply chains, and contribute to Pakistan’s competitiveness in global textile markets.
Building stronger connections across the cotton and textile value chain – one partnership at a time. #USAinPakistan
What’s next for Pakistan’s tech sector?
In Lahore, Consul General Stetson Sanders joined @abf_pakistan at @LifeAtLUMS for a conversation on creating opportunities for Pakistan’s technology ecosystem and strengthening U.S-Pakistan collaboration.
The discussion brought together U.S. companies, startups, academia, and government to explore emerging technologies, skills development, and ways to connect Pakistan’s talented workforce with global expertise and opportunities.
CG Sanders highlighted how U.S. companies can contribute through expertise, business practices, innovation, and partnerships that help prepare Pakistan’s workforce for the future of technology.
More connections. More ideas. More opportunities – for both our countries. 🇺🇸🇵🇰 #USAinPakistan