COLOMBO, Sri Lanka: The Foreign Secretary Tehmina Janjua has launched the “Pakistan Alumni Society of Sri Lanka (PASS)” in Colombo, aims at to connect the universities of both the Countries under various scholarship programmes.
The alumni society was launched at a local hotel in Colombo with the vision of “Re-Connecting the Alumni for Greater Collective Good” in the presence of a large gathering including Sri Lankan ministers, dignitaries, representatives of armed forces, educational institutions, academia and people from different walks of life.
Through this alumni society, the public and private sectors as well as civil society will be able to build networks and create professional opportunities that will contribute to the advanced knowledge development of two Countries.
All Sri Lankan citizens, who received any professional qualification or attended short or long term training programmes in Pakistan, are eligible to join the alumni society.
In her address to the gathering, Tehmina Janjua underscored that Pakistan has excelled in many fields of higher education, particularly medicine, dentistry, pharmacy and engineering, management & social sciences, and provides a wonderful and cost effective option for talented Sri Lankan students.
Janjua said that over the last many decades, thousands of Sri Lankan students and professionals have benefited from education and training in Pakistan.
The Foreign Office referred the visit of Prime Minister of Pakistan to Sri Lanka in 2016, during which Pakistan offered to develop a “Knowledge Corridor” for Sri Lankan students and civil and military personnel, through scholarships and trainings in our universities and training institutions.
Tehmina Janjua emphasized that this initiative, termed as Prime Minister’s Pak-Lanka Knowledge Corridor, will open up immense opportunities for Sri Lankan nationals to study at higher education institutions of Pakistan on scholarships and highly concessional terms.
