Hungarian scholarships: Pakistani students to start classes
Published at: 27/04/2016 03:04 pm
The first group of 80 Pakistani students will pursue classes in their respective disciplines from the coming fall session at various institutions in Hungary.The under-secretary of Hungary’s Ministry for Education Laszlo Palkovics and Higher Education Commission (HEC) Chairman Dr Mukhtar Ahmed discussed the details of the program during their meeting in Islamabad.
The two countries signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) last year in this connection for awarding 240 scholarships to Pakistani students giving them an opportunity to benefit from Hungarian institutions, said a news release. Palkovics expressed the desire to establish long-term relationship under the umbrella of Stipendium Hungaricum Scholarship Programme. He highlighted that among the list of 48 countries, the number of applications from Pakistan was the highest. Dr Ahmed expressed gratitude for the scholarships offer by the Hungarian government-according to the Pakistani newspaper, The Express Tribune.
It is worth tightening economic relations with Pakistan
The Hungarian Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Trade has recently sent a high-ranking delegation to Islamabad to gain a deeper insight into Pakistan and to provide Pakistani politicians and businesspeople with more information about Hungary. The head of the delegation, Levente Magyar and his negotiating partners agreed that in addition to the energy industry and water management, the agricultural sector holds the greatest opportunities for Hungarian enterprises. Pakistan is a country with extremely good agricultural capabilities, but nobody has ever organized large-scale agricultural production and there is no industrial-scale, high-quality agricultural production occurring within an organized framework. There are several world class products that Pakistan would like to apply Hungarian technologies to produce, Magyar said, according to the Hungarian News Agency, MTI.
More than a bridge
The Hungarian delegation officially opened the new Khushal Garh Bridge across the Indus River on the border between the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa and Punjab districts of Pakistan; a significant proportion of the bridge’s construction expenses were paid for by the Pakistani subsidiary of Hungarian energy company MOL, which is the largest Hungarian-owned company operating in the country, managing some 2 billion US Dollars in investments to operate the country’s gas and oils fields.