Director General University of Management and Technology (UMT), Abid Sherwani met with Al-haaj Abdul Baqi Haqqani, the Afghan Higher Edu-cation (HE) Minister for establishing resilient col-laboration among both the countries and exchanged views on educational affairs.
Director General UMT Abid Sherwani ex-pressed that the need of fostering education for the Afghan Youth is to eliminate cultural disparity, promote the love for learning and elevate the liter-acy levels that would contribute towards the pro-gress of the nation.
He further added that the key to the success of UMT depends on the inclusion of a mixture of cultures and diversity, a foundation stone laid by Dr. Hasan Sohaib Murad (Shaheed). This is why students from 20 countries are getting quality education on scholarships at UMT.
The Afghan Higher Education Minister Abdul Haqqani expressed his thanks to DG UMT, Abid Sherwani and President UMT, Ibrahim Hasan Mu-rad for their supportive role towards education in Afghanistan.
Appreciating their efforts, he said that Afghanistan is pleased to hear about the 100 Schol-arships for Afghan students and 10 PhD Scholar-ships for the teachers and researchers.
