{"id":20672,"date":"2025-06-16T05:28:33","date_gmt":"2025-06-16T05:28:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/gsrra.com\/?p=20672"},"modified":"2025-06-16T05:29:47","modified_gmt":"2025-06-16T05:29:47","slug":"oxford-pakistan-program-secures-new-scholarships-and-100000-endowment-for-pakistani-students","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gsrra.com\/?p=20672","title":{"rendered":"Oxford Pakistan Program Secures New Scholarships and \u00a3100,000 Endowment for Pakistani Students"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/propakistani.pk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/hungary-scholarships-.jpg\" alt=\"\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>The Oxford Pakistan Programme (OPP) marked a significant achievement at its annual fundraising dinner held at Lady Margaret Hall, where it secured funding commitments for three new scholarships and a \u00a3100,000 contribution to its endowment fund aimed at supporting Pakistan\u2019s most promising students.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Interloop Ltd, one of Pakistan\u2019s top exporters, pledged to sponsor a scholarship for three consecutive years. The company was represented by businessman and philanthropist Musadaq Zulqarnain.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Additionally, British Pakistani donors Munir Hussain\u2014owner of one of the UK\u2019s largest food chains\u2014and Aneel Musarrat committed to fully fund graduate scholarships through the OPP for the next five years.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>These scholarships will help high-achieving Pakistani students pursue advanced studies at the University of Oxford in areas such as computer science, mathematics, genome medicine, and theoretical physics.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Supporting the programme\u2019s long-term goals, Professor Sarwar Khawaja donated \u00a3100,000 to strengthen the OPP\u2019s endowment fund.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The evening event, sponsored by Oxford alumni Dr Omer Suleman and Shamyl Malik\u2014co-founders of fintech firm Haruko\u2014brought together academics, philanthropists, and programme supporters.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Since its launch, the OPP has provided nearly \u00a31 million in funding to 52 students from regions like Sindh, Balochistan, and South Punjab. The programme\u2019s founders emphasized the urgency of expanding educational access in Pakistan, where over two-thirds of the population is under 30.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Reference Link:- <a href=\"https:\/\/propakistani.pk\/2025\/06\/15\/oxford-pakistan-program-secures-new-scholarships-and-100000-endowment-for-pakistani-students\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">https:\/\/propakistani.pk\/2025\/06\/15\/oxford-pakistan-program-secures-new-scholarships-and-100000-endowment-for-pakistani-students\/<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Oxford Pakistan Programme (OPP) marked a significant achievement at its annual fundraising dinner held at Lady Margaret Hall, where it secured funding commitments for three new scholarships and a \u00a3100,000 contribution to its endowment fund aimed at supporting Pakistan\u2019s most promising students. Interloop Ltd, one of Pakistan\u2019s top exporters, pledged to sponsor a scholarship [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-20672","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sample-category"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gsrra.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20672","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gsrra.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gsrra.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gsrra.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gsrra.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=20672"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/gsrra.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20672\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20673,"href":"https:\/\/gsrra.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20672\/revisions\/20673"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gsrra.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=20672"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gsrra.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=20672"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gsrra.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=20672"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}