Scholarships for Palestinian students

Islamabad : The Ambassador of Palestine, Ahmed Jawad A. Rabaei visited Comstech on the invitation of the Coordinator General Comstech, Prof. Dr. M. Iqbal Choudhary to discuss the mechanism for execution of 500 scholarships for Palestinian students recently and explore avenues of mutual cooperation in the area of science and technology.

Prof. Choudhary informed that the programme management unit has been established at Comstech to execute this programme. He said that Palestinian students would be fully facilitated for enrollment in Pakistani universities.

He also mentioned that online education facilities would also be provided to Palestinian students by Pakistani universities. Prof. Dr. M. Iqbal Choudhary, Coordinator General, Comstech said that Palestinian people are under aggression and siege by occupant forces. They have limited access to higher education and research facilities. Over seven decades of occupation has systematically destroyed educational and socio-economic infra-structures of Palestinian state.