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Balochistan: Balochistan Education Endowment Fund has awarded more than 42,000 scholarships to students in the province during the past sixteen months.
According to Radio Pakistan, over three billion rupees has been directly transferred to students and institutions under a transparent, merit-based, and fully digital system. The government has boosted the fund by an additional six billion rupees, launching six new schemes including the Foreign PhD Program and Oxford Pakistan Scholarship.
This year, ten outstanding students from Balochistan will head to top international universities to study advanced sciences including pharmaceuticals, aviation, and medicine.