Feds Expensive Virtual Book Club for Pakistanis-Afghans Cost $116,068

The Department of State awarded $116,068 to Citizens Archive of Pakistan (CAP) for a “20-month virtual book club program connecting twelve cities in Pakistan with twelve cities in Afghanistan.”

The virtual book club's website is defunct; however, they communicate by Twitter.

Based in Karachi, Pakistan, CAP is a “non-profit organization dedicated to cultural and historic preservation and educational outreach.” However, information on the organization or virtual book club cannot be gathered from CAP’s official website, citizenarchive.org, which is defunct as of this writing.

Some information about the program can be gleaned from eighteen tweets that CAP posted since May 2020, one of which mentions that the book club hopes to serve “360 students.”

However, in pictures posted on Twitter, less than a dozen students are shown.

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