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Tajik Envoy and Punjab University discuss academic exchange programs
March 4, 2021
LAHORE, Pakistan: The Ambassador of the Republic of Tajikistan to Pakistan His Excellency Ismatullo Nasredin has said that Tajikistan is ready to welcome faculty and students from the University of the Punjab to promote people-to-people contact.
Talking to the Vice-Chancellor University of the Punjab Professor Dr. Niaz Ahmad at the University in Lahore, the ambassador highlighted that academic exchange programs under the Regional Integration Center of the University of the Punjab in Lahore will be a positive step to promote the historical and cultural linkages of Tajikistan and Pakistan.
During the meeting, various activities of academic collaboration under the University of the Punjab’s Regional Integration Center were discussed.
PU announces scholarships for Tajik students
National
March 4, 2021
LAHORE: Punjab University Vice-Chancellor Prof Niaz Ahmad has announced scholarships for the students of Tajikistan who would seek admissions at PU from fall 2021 as a part of efforts to bring two nations together.
He was talking to Tajikistan’s Ambassador Ismatullo Nasredin at the VC office here on Wednesday. Pro Vice-Chancellor Prof Dr Saleem Mazhar, Regional Integration Centre Director Dr Fauzia Hadi Ali, Centre for Global and Strategic Studies Executive Director Khalid Taimur and others were present. Nasredin said both the countries were historically and culturally connected.
LAHORE: Punjab Minister for Higher Education and Information Technology Raja Yasir Humayun says career counselling centres will be set up in educational institutions to guide the students.
A web portal will also be launched to help the students. He was giving an interview to the FM radio and web TV of the Lahore College for Women University. The minister also visited the Department of Mass Communication.
LCWU Vice Chancellor Prof Dr Bushra Mirza and Department Chairperson Dr Anjum Zia briefed the minister on the equipment, studios and laboratories set up in the department. The VC said in his briefing that during Covid-19, the Lahore College for Women University continued teaching with the help of the Learning Management System.
By Matthew Quintero
“If not China, who?” was a question asked during a class on foreign investment in Africa. The speaker was an African naval officer. The class was equally composed of American and African military officers, and the place was the United States Naval War College (NWC). The African officers all seemed to nod in agreement while the rest of the room shrugged. The author has heard this comment several times before by other exasperated African officers. They were tired of being reminded that China was only interested in the natural resources of their homelands, or that China was building ports, bases, and infrastructure on loans their nations could hardly repay. They were also acutely aware that China’s “no strings attached” development targeted their weak governments and “big man” regimes. It was sometimes difficult for this particular officer to express himself, as English was his third language after Bantu and French. But on this day he made himself very