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Pakistani Community Leader Shahid Khan Had A Long Road From Lahore To Brooklyn

Shahid Khan (Photo by Shannon Geis/KensingtonBK)Shahid Khan has become an important local community leader in the past few years. Earlier this year, he opened the BRICK Community Center [/blog/neighbors/breaking-barriers-new-community-center-aims-celebrate-pakistani-culture-connect-neighbors/] . He helps run the Startalk Urdu language program [/blog/education/65-students-graduated-from-summer-urdu-program-on-friday/] for local students, and recently started

Breaking Down Barriers: New Community Center Aims To Celebrate Pakistani Culture, Connect Neighbors

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Breaking Down Barriers: New Community Center Aims To Celebrate Pakistani Culture, Connect Neighbors

Photo courtesy Shahid KhanCommunity leaders, elected officials and other neighbors celebrated on Sunday the opening of a new center in our area that is dedicated to promoting Pakistani languages, literature and culture, as well as connecting the neighborhood’s growing Pakistani  and South Asian community [/blog/food/thousands-celebrate-pakistans-independence-at-brooklyn-mela-on-coney-island-avenue] with other