s s aizaz ahmad chaudhry. with 37 years of experience in the foreign service, he was the secretary of pakistan and he is a graduate of tufts university and had a very interesting and distinguished career basically all the big jobs with the ambassador of the netherlands and we are very fortunate to have someone of his caliber representing pakistan at this time. we are at a challenging time for the relations between the united states and pakistan. we are aware of all that, but i think we need to talk about the challenges in our relationship and the thing is that needs to be addressed and then we also want a conversation that opens up on a number of things that don't get enough attention. we will turn over to the ambassador. please come up it's an honor to have you. [applause] >> thank you all for coming to the session and for organizing this event. it would be my pleasure to share with you by talks on topics you've suggested to us. in the last one month. i like that you start from that. last month, you all will

aizaz ahmad chaudhry have any comment on that? >> that's why it's important that the senate bill that senator casey has introduced is all about consumerr education. this deadline is coming although turning 65 is a great opportunity there's alsoghng responsibility the individual has to take. i've also noticed that it's critical and we have done this not only working with the federal agencies but also working with other community-based organizations across the country who are in the community and know these individuals who need extra help. for example we run enrollment centers where again we trained volunteers, staff members and organizations to actually walk people through sometimes very complicated federal programs and what we found is there's a need or both. there's a need for education from the federal agencies directly to the mailbox. the majority of seniors are on facebook everyday so how you can indicate to seniors in the way you want to be communicated to through avenues but also funding and supporting local community-based