Ysa Chandna
With DG ISPR, GHQ, Pakistan Army
After the successful completion of my internship with Major General Asim Saleem Bajwa, the Director General of Inter Services Public Relations, in his office at the General Headquarters (GHQ) in Rawalpindi.
I presented him what I created to be the official poster of the ISPR, and was used in numerous publications of ISPR, including print and online social media.
My internship at a glance:
Performed strategic public relations & communications functions at ISPR – the PR arm of Pakistan Army, the frontline ally in the Global War on Terror for a span of 3 months. The week was divided into 4 days being spent at the General Headquarters (GHQ) at Rawalpindi in Pakistan and 3 days being spent at a different battlefield of Pakistan, interacting with soldiers, unit offices, and locals affected by the ongoing operations to better understand the complications involved in fighting counter-insurgencies & urban warfare.
Day-to-day tasks and projects included:
•Drafting press collaterals
•Conducting daily media monitoring
•Redesigning the official Pakistan Army and Inter Services Public Relations web pages
•Compiling media dossiers
•Writing response articles advocating the Military’s perspectives to be published in English language newspapers.
•Drafting the official Military PR Manual of Protocol of ISPR
•Interviewing the families of the soldiers martyred in the Global War on Terror, on the volatile Pakistan - Afghanistan border.
•Creating a video documentary to be aired on national television on the families of the soldiers martyred in Siachen, the battlefield with the highest altitude on earth on the Pakistan – India border.
Summer 2O12
Internship, Pakistan Army
Islamic Republic of Pakistan.
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Ysa Chandna
With DG ISPR, GHQ, Pakistan Army
After the successful completion of my internship with Major General Asim Saleem Bajwa, the Director General of Inter Services Public Relations, in his office at the General Headquarters (GHQ) in Rawalpindi.
I presented him what I created to be the official poster of the ISPR, and was used in numerous publications of ISPR, including print and online social media.
My internship at a glance:
Performed strategic public relations & communications functions at ISPR – the PR arm of Pakistan Army, the frontline ally in the Global War on Terror for a span of 3 months. The week was divided into 4 days being spent at the General Headquarters (GHQ) at Rawalpindi in Pakistan and 3 days being spent at a different battlefield of Pakistan, interacting with soldiers, unit offices, and locals affected by the ongoing operations to better understand the complications involved in fighting counter-insurgencies & urban warfare.
Day-to-day tasks and projects included:
•Drafting press collaterals
•Conducting daily media monitoring
•Redesigning the official Pakistan Army and Inter Services Public Relations web pages
•Compiling media dossiers
•Writing response articles advocating the Military’s perspectives to be published in English language newspapers.
•Drafting the official Military PR Manual of Protocol of ISPR
•Interviewing the families of the soldiers martyred in the Global War on Terror, on the volatile Pakistan - Afghanistan border.
•Creating a video documentary to be aired on national television on the families of the soldiers martyred in Siachen, the battlefield with the highest altitude on earth on the Pakistan – India border.
Summer 2O12
Internship, Pakistan Army
Islamic Republic of Pakistan.
.
.
.
.
Ysa Chandna