Naurin Ahmad-Zaki who heads the Annemarie-Schimmel-Haus (ASH), set up the Haus in 2003. As its director she is a permanent member of the Pak-German Society Lahore (PGSL). She also works and liaisons closely withour most valued partners, the Goethe-Institut Pakistan, the German Embassy, the German Consulate in Karachi, the DAAD (German Academic Exchange Service) and ASH’s cohabitants, the Alliance Francaise de Lahore.