HEC Welcomes Afghan Scholars to Pakistan We welcomed 350 undergraduate Afghan scholars to Peshawar under the Allama Muhammad Iqbal… – HEC Pakistan

We welcomed 350 undergraduate Afghan scholars to Peshawar under the Allama Muhammad Iqbal Scholarship Program. These students will begin a specially designed preparatory course before their admission to various universities in the fall semester. In September 2025, an additional 50 PhD and 100 Master’s students will also arrive to pursue their higher education in Pakistan.

These scholarships are part of a major initiative by the Government of Pakistan to award 4,500 scholarships to Afghan students through the Allama Muhammad Iqbal Scholarship Program.

HEC organised a warm reception for the new arrivals at the HEC’s Peshawar Regional Center. Students were greeted by HEC staff and representatives from NUTECH, Islamabad, and NUCES-FAST, Faisalabad.

These scholarships offer Afghan students the invaluable opportunity to pursue higher education at Pakistan’s top-tier universities across a wide range of fields.