The Oxford Pakistan Programme (OPP) has announced new academic scholarships and a major financial support for Pakistani students during its annual fundraising dinner at Lady Margaret Hall, Oxford where it secured funding commitments for three new scholarships and a £100,000 contribution to its endowment fund aimed at supporting Pakistan’s most promising students.

New scholarships announced

At the ceremony, Musadaq Zulqarnain, chairman and welfare leader of Pakistan’s leading export company Interlop Limited, announced to sponsor a scholarship for the next three years. This scholarship will provide an opportunity to the talented youth of Pakistan to pursue higher education at a global level.

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Five-year scholarship scheme for British Pakistanis

Prominent British-Pakistani businessmen Munir Hussain and Aneel Musarrat have pledged to provide full graduate scholarships for the next five years under the Oxford Pakistan Programme. These scholarships will be available for advanced subjects like Computer Science, Mathematics, Genome Medicine and Theoretical Physics.

Donation of £1 million from Professor Sarwar Khawaja

For the financial stability of the program and future plans, Professor Sarwar Khawaja, a prominent educationist, made a valuable donation of £100,000 (£100,000) to the program’s endowment fund. This money will be used to support students on a long-term basis.

Eminent personalities participated in event

The annual fundraising event, supported by Oxford alumni Dr Omar Suleman and Shamyl Malik (co-founder of fintech company Haruko), was attended by key people from the academic, social and business world.

So far, 52 students have been given the opportunity to study at the University of Oxford through scholarships worth around £1 million under the Oxford Pakistan Programme. These students are from Pakistan’s less developed regions such as Sindh, Balochistan and southern Punjab. The programme’s founders emphasized the urgency of expanding educational access in Pakistan to youth where over two-thirds of the population is under 30.

Expansion of education is essential for Pakistan’s young population

The founders of the program emphasised that the need of the hour is to provide access to global educational institutions to the majority of the youth in Pakistan. This program not only opens the door to education. It also enables the youth of Pakistan to play an effective role in the world.