Gilani in Uzbekistan: PM seeks scholarships for Pakistani students

Gilani visits IT university in Tashkent, says he is much impressed.


Maha Mussadaq March 26, 2011

TASHKENT:


On the second day of his two-day visit to Uzbekistan, Prime Minister Yousaf Raza Gilani toured the city’s information technology institutes and said that Pakistani students should be awarded scholarships to study in Uzbekistan.


“This would greatly help our government’s information technology project worth Rs5 million, which we will be announcing soon,” Gilani said, during his visit to the Tashkent Information Technology College. “I believe that the future of any country is dependent on the development of its information technology sector.” He said that under the ambitious IT programme of the government, every district of Pakistan would have its own IT training institute. The project, he said, would particularly focus on the less-developed districts of the country.

Gilani said that he was very impressed with the work of the institution and took a tour of the entire campus. He also interacted with students.

An Uzbek official said that the country’s literacy rate was 99.8 per cent and that 50 per cent of their budget is spent on health and education. The prime minister said that his government was focusing on the education and health sectors.

The prime minister also visited the Turin Polytechnic University, which is collaborating with General Motors in Uzbekistan and Turin Polytechnic University, Italy. He was shown models of Uzbek-produced cars and other mechanical products that were being displayed in the main hall of the university.

Gilani also visited the Hazrat Imam complex, which was constructed in 2007 and encompasses the centuries-old Jama Mosque, a madrassa, a museum and a library. The prime minister, along with his delegation, also got the opportunity to see the original copy of the Holy Quran. Gilani was briefed about how the copy had been preserved.

Published in The Express Tribune, March 26th, 2011.

COMMENTS (1)

Faraz Ahmed | 12 years ago | Reply I want to study with scholarship due to unability to carry out academic expenses. Please make possible for me to study by granting me scholarship. I shall be highly obliged of you.
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