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Started in Peshawar in 2025. Students, educators and working engineers closing the gap between what’s taught and what the industry needs.
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Too many students meet their first working engineer at a job interview.
TechKhwa exists to make that meeting happen much earlier: in a classroom, on a Friday-night Zoom call, or halfway up Mushkpuri.
We’re a small core team and a wider circle of volunteers. Engineers, designers, trainers and founders give their time to answer questions, run labs, mentor, and review CVs. Universities, colleges and schools open their doors. The rest is showing up, every week.
Connect education with the real world.
Help people build the skills they need, so that learning leads to real work, real innovation and real success.
Anyone who wants a career in tech can reach the people already doing it.
Regardless of which city they study in, which university they attend, or who they already know.
Four things we don't compromise on
Practitioners teach
Sessions are led by people who do the work: cloud engineers, network admins, designers and founders.
Free, or close to it
The Mehfil and the Creative Fellowship are free. Bootcamps are priced to cover costs. AWS Cloud Foundations is PKR 3,000.
Beyond Peshawar
We’ve run sessions in Buner, Abbottabad and Islamabad, and Mehfil members join from across Pakistan and abroad.
We learn too
Our own team meets weekly for knowledge-sharing on sales, web, career counselling, design and marketing.
From a Friday call to a community across Pakistan
TechKhwa turned one in February 2026. Here’s how the first eighteen months went.
TechKhwa is founded
Started in Peshawar with weekly knowledge-sharing sessions and university visits at its core.
Technology Awareness Programme
Cybersecurity workshops at IMSciences, SBBWU and the University of Buner.
Notion × NIC Peshawar
“Streamlining Startup Workflows with Notion” with Notion UET Peshawar and the National Incubation Center. The DevOps mentorship opens.
Partners & mentors
Community partner for DevFest Peshawar; mentors at WECON 2025; Master Trainer on the NUTECH ToT with the British Council.
TechKhwa turns one
Community partner at the NIC AI Summit. The free Creative Fellowship launches and 2026 membership applications open.
AFAQ Institute MoU
Internship pathways for students in Buner. Community partner for KTR 2026 at Hayatabad Sports Complex.
The first Expedition
53 students and professionals travel from Peshawar to Mushkpuri Top.
CECOS University MoU
A formal partnership for workshops, programmes and industry exposure.
On BBC Pashto
The Robotics & AI workshop at The City School, Peshawar is featured by BBC Pashto. The Digital Events Series begins.
AWS Academy, Batch 02
Official AWS Academy Cloud Foundations, now in its second batch.
Who runs TechKhwa
TechKhwa is run by a core team and a growing circle of volunteers, trainers and mentors.
Kashif Ali
Founder & CEO
Cloud, virtualization and data-centre engineer and trainer. Master Trainer on the British Council / EU TVET Full Stack ToT at NUTECH, VIP delegate at ITCN Asia’s Global CISO Forum, and a regular speaker at universities across Pakistan.
Rohullah Hamid
Co-Founder & CTO
Runs the technical side of TechKhwa’s labs and sessions. Notion Campus Lead at UET Peshawar; led “Streamlining Startup Workflows with Notion” at NIC Peshawar.
Syed Hasnain Ali Shah
Co-Founder & COO
Keeps TechKhwa’s programmes, partnerships and day-to-day operations running.
Team & programme leads
Graphics Lead
Robotics Programme Lead
Robotics Trainer
DevOps Mentor
PR Officer
Community Relations Officer
Social Media Manager
Social Media Lead
IT Support Officer
Graphic Designer
Cinematographer
Want to help build this?
We’re always looking for mentors, speakers and volunteers, in Pakistan and abroad.