Feb 10 , 2016
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Pakistan inks MoU with Sri Lanka on academic cooperation
APPCOLOMBO: Pakistan and Sri Lanka on Tuesday inked memorandum of understandings (MoUs) to promote academic and cultural cooperation between the two countries.
The agreements were signed between Pakistan’s private sector institution Preston University with Sri Lanka’s College of Information Management and Sciences and Sri Lanka-Pakistan Friendship, Trade and Investment Association for collaboration at the High Commission of Pakistan in Colombo. Pakistani High Commissioner Major General (r) Syed Shakeel Hussain witnessed the signing ceremony along with the officers of High Commission and members and office bearers of Sri Lanka’s College of Information Management and Sciences and Sri Lanka-Pakistan Friendship, Trade and Investment Association. Professor Dr Zulfiqar Ali Qureshi, Anwar M Mustafa and Iftikhar Aziz signed the MoUs on behalf of their respective organisations. Under the agreement, the parties will also explore and promote opportunities to undertake joint research in areas of mutual interest, a statement from the Pakistan High Commission in Colombo said. They will also actively collaborate and cooperate for dissemination of knowledge through sharing of publications and papers, organising conferences and seminars and undertaking joint publications of research works.
Syed Shakeel Hussain said the MoUs would facilitate academic and cultural linkages and collaborative activities between the faculty, students and members of all these entities. He said the agreements will promote and facilitate exchange of students and offer scholarships on mutually agreed modalities and arrangements. Professor Qureshi announced two scholarships to the students of BS, MSc, MPhil and PhD in the disciplines of social and management sciences and other disciplines of Preston University for the universities and other bodies of Sri Lanka working in the academic fields. He invited Sri Lanka and the Pakistani high commissioner to send scholars for the two upcoming international conferences on ‘China-Pakistan Economic Cooperation – Challenges and Options’, and ‘Sacred Art and Architecture in Islam and Buddhism’ scheduled on March 14 and October 10 respectively.
The eight-member delegation of Pakistani professors and scholars led by Prof Dr Zulfiqar Ali Qureshi of Preston University of Pakistan is in Sri Lanka on a weeklong study visit.
Courtesy www.dailytimes.com.pk