The Pakistan government has released 2.819 billion Pakistan rupees ($35.4 million) to pay tuition for Pakistani students enrolled on government scholarships at universities abroad. The government had not paid for scholarships in the last academic term.
Many Pakistanis studying abroad under the country’s ambitious foreign-scholarship program found themselves in tuition trouble last November, as Pakistan’s cash-strapped Higher Education Commission did not have the money to pay the foreign universities.
A senior official told The Nation that the foreign-scholarship program would continue as long as money was available for it, while another newspaper reported that the commission had already shelved all of its scholarship programs.
