Quaid-e-Azam University Alumni Association Pakistan has offered fifteen need based scholarships for the students belonging to flood affected areas. These scholarships would be awarded on annual basis to the students who would be enrolled at Quaid-e-Azam University Islamabad.
These offered scholarships would additional to already announced five scholarships, which are being availed by the present students of QAU Islamabad belonging to remote-hard areas of Pakistan in the fields of social and natural sciences. Talking to this correspondent, Murtaza Noor Secretary General QAU Alumni Association informed that this time these scholarships would be offered in the disciplines of business education, international relations and economics. These scholarships have been donated by, one of the active alumni, Dr Abdul Basit Chancellor Preston University Pakistan. The scholarships would bear the total academic and hostel fee.
These scholarships would be formally announced on ceremony scheduled to be held on Friday 6th August 2010 at Islamabad Club Islamabad, which would be attended by the graduates of Quaid-e-Azam University Islamabad who are well placed in different international and national public and private sector organisations. All the arrangements related to the event have been finalised. Quaid-i-Azam University Islamabad and Quaid-i-Azam University Alumni Association have already signed MOU to extend co-operation for the benefit of the present and old students of Quaid-i-Azam University Islamabad.