An official Afghan delegation headed by Dr. Nazar Muhammad Irfan, Director of Foreign Affairs and Scholarships, Ministry of Higher Education, Afghanistan including Afghan officials from the Afghan International Islamic University (AIIU)accompanied by Mr. Jehanzeb, Project Director HEC and Mr. Mujahid Aziz, Project Manager, HEC visited UET Peshawar here today. The purpose of the visit was to see opportunity for initiating the joint faculty exchange program with the Afghan International Islamic University.
Dr. Rafiullah Atta, Chancellor of AIIU said, the visit is aimed to build institutional linkages withthe leading Pakistani universities particularly in engineering and technology as AIIU needs foreign faculty from Pakistan to teach MS and Ph.D. level courses to reduce the faculty gap resulted after the US exit from Afghanistan. The delegates affirmed that Pakistan and Afghanistan have been enjoying brotherly relations and the collaboration in higher education would further strengthen this relationship. The faculty exchange will bring about real change in the HE sector of Afghanistan, he added.
The delegates were keenly interested to develop cooperation for faculty exchange program and research collaborations with UET Peshawar.
