In a new effort to win hearts and minds in Pakistan USAID - the development arm of the US Government - Donates$ 20 m (￡ 12 m) in the country to create a local Urdu version of the show.
Objective of the project is to increase education in Pakistan, where many children have no access to regular education have.
The show is filmed in Lahore and broadcast later in the year.
"The program is part of a series of projects, which is to develop of the educational infrastructure in the country," said a spokesman for USAID, the BBC, Virginia Morgan.
"Education is one of the vital sectors who need help in Pakistan."
The show is sit with tea shop and residents in a village in Pakistan - instead of the streets of New York - on the side of the road on their porch set.
The remake is a puppet named Rani, the six-year-old daughter of a peasant farmer, with pigtails and a school uniform, according to the British Guardian newspaper star.
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Syed Shoaib Hasan BBC News, KarachiThe Rafi peer group is a leading light in the Pakistani theatre for almost 30 years. The Group was in the news in the past for his impromptu of productions - as well as for the threats it received.
In 2008 of his very popular world performing arts festival in Lahore was bombed. Although no one was hurt, the attack set back the arts as the cultural capital of the country in what is considered.
An attack followed on the force Café in the city. Still owner Faizan and Imran Peerzada have been Sesame Street audience in Pakistan required.
In a recent interview she said the brothers planned to ensure that country houses, planned would reach the show with more than 600 live appearances over the next two years.
Focus on five to nine year-olds, is running the series on Pakistan national TV and regional language channels.Sesame Street not totally foreign to Pakistani audience - is the original version on local TV ran during the 1990s.
But it westernised section of Pakistani society could be understood only through the limited.
The Rafi peer theatre group, the local version in collaboration with Sesame Workshop, which produces, hopes to change.
In an interview with a local edition of Newsweek, Imraan Peerzada' as a writer for the new series, the protagonist was a courageous and daring girl said.
"they are what will have girls in this gender biased to go society", he said.
He said their journey would inevitably affect Pakistan's ongoing battle with militancy, but would like to refer directly to religion.
"" We want to not label children ' "he said.""The basic learning tools of literacy ' numeracy 'Hygiene' and healthy dining have first exist."
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