PESHAWAR: Khyber Medical University Peshawar has decided to offer admission in all BS programs to Afghan students and charge the same fees as Pakistani students.
The decision was taken only to provide assistance in the availability of trained medical personnel to deal with the health issues of war-hit Afghanistan.
This decision was taken in a top-level meeting held at KMU in which vice-chancellor KMU Professor Dr. Zia ul Haq, Director IPMR Dr. Irfanullah, Director Finance Waseem Riaz, Director of ORIC Dr. Zohaib Khan, Afghan Consulate Deputy Consul General Mufti Noorullah Hotak, Shahidullah Zaheer, Maulana Muhammad Tahir Nafis, and other relevant officials participated.
The meeting was informed that the Afghan people have been living in a state of war for the last 4 decades, as a result of which a huge portion of the population is crippled and disabled apart from scarcity of health facilities.
Due to the war, the infrastructure in Afghanistan has been destroyed, and people are facing numerous problems with the availability of health facilities.
KMU vice-chancellor assured the delegation of Afghanistan that the university would welcome the admission of Afghan students in all its BS programs, including Physiotherapy and Pharmaceutical Sciences and they will be provided with all facilities.
He said that since the last academic year, the university has decided to charge Afghan students the same fee as Pakistani students in all programs, including dental and medical.
VC KMU said that despite financial problems, the purpose of this decision is to provide medical education opportunities to more Afghan students.
He said that the purpose of providing quality medical education to Afghan students is to assist Afghanistan in overcoming the health issues it has been facing for the last forty years.
Mufti Noorullah Hotak said that the ban on girls’ education by the Islamic Emirate is just propaganda.
The curriculum has been changed up to class 9th, and as soon as this process is completed, the doors of education will be opened for women students. He said that Afghanistan is not in favor of banning females’ education and employment.
While welcoming the admissions for Afghan students on behalf of the university, he expressed the hope that the ties between the two brotherly and neighboring nations have been fulfilled in every hour of the test and that these bilateral ties will be better and stronger in the future.
Khyber Medical University’s efforts lauded
He appreciated the efforts of the university in connection with the KMU campus in Kabul, Afghanistan, and assured all possible cooperation from his country in this regard.
