New Delhi (India), November 23: LONDON/HOUSTON: American-Pakistani businessman tycoon Tanweer Ahmed has donated $9 million to Islamabad’s Nationwide College of Science & Know-how (NUST) to assist college students from poor backgrounds to achieve entry to high quality schooling by means of scholarships.
NUST has confirmed that Tanweer Ahmed has entered right into a partnership with the college by means of an Endowment Fund for unprivileged college students, which can profit practically 200 college students who would be capable of get scholarships yearly. The $9 million donation is likely one of the single largest donations by any abroad Pakistani for any Pakistani college.
Tanweer Ahmed stated in an interview that he plans to develop the scheme to different universities and to NUST, the place the donation scheme will run completely. He stated {that a} formal ceremony will happen on the NUST Islamabad subsequent month which will likely be attended by Pakistan’s prime management to formally launch the scholarship programme.
The Houston-based businessman stated: “The deserving college students would get scholarships yearly by means of the Greater Schooling Fee (HEC). The system to acquire scholarships will likely be purely on advantage and aimed strictly at these college students who’re unable to afford high quality and costly schooling. I made a decision to launch the Endowment Fund to help gifted and deserving Pakistani college students so as for them to make their mark in numerous superior sectors corresponding to Synthetic Intelligence (AI), Data Know-how (IT) and the most recent applied sciences. The longer term belongs to those sectors, and Pakistan will profit vastly from its youth.”
Tanweer Ahmed is an American-Pakistani businessman, investor, entrepreneur and philanthropist who works with main firms, not-for-profit organizations and hospitals. He’s the proprietor of the most important cricket complicated in Houston, the Prairie View Cricket Advanced and the proprietor of the Houston Hurricanes cricket franchise. The multi-millionaire businessman is the founding father of a model of meals chains and in addition owns many meals chain franchises like Pizza Hut, Taco Bell and KFC. He owns California’s largest transport firm and has enterprise pursuits within the vitality sector and drugs trade. Tanweer Ahmed is credited for taking on $50 million {dollars} help to Pakistan in the course of the 2022 devastating floods in Pakistan.
Initially from Sialkot, he began off on a humble notice within the US when he migrated as a pupil and labored in a restaurant. He was then promoted as a supervisor on the similar restaurant. He then began his personal restaurant enterprise and has now arrange a number of companies and profitable firms.
It’s his personal humble background and sensible information of the realities in Pakistan that, he says, has impressed him to work for the Pakistani youth to empower them.
He stated: “We didn’t have the alternatives 30 years in the past that the scholars can have at present. I don’t suppose there have been many profitable Pakistanis within the 90s within the US or Europe. At the moment, there are 1000’s who’ve carried out nicely in life. I’m simply one among them. Many are serving to Pakistan at present with every part they will. Extra Pakistanis want to return out with their philanthropic efforts than ever earlier than.”
Tanweer Ahmed stated that abroad Pakistanis owe it to Pakistan to serve the nation of their origin and identification. “We owe to our motherland as a result of we’re the place we’re due to Pakistan. Our greatest contribution could be made by means of empowering our youth with trendy schooling and information. I’m completely happy to play my half in serving to Pakistani youth in reaching their objectives in life.”
This isn’t the primary time Tanweer Ahmed has given cash to Pakistan. He has arrange a hospital in Sialkot, the place
NUST Rector Engineer Javed Mahmood Bukhari stated in a press release that the undertaking goes to perpetually profit 1000’s of good Pakistani girls and boys in direction of in search of world-class college schooling within the coming years.
The NUST Rector stated: “Mr Tanweer Ahmed, a well known Pakistani American, philanthropist-businessman from Houston USA, has partnered with NUST to help the financially challenged college students. This can be a distinctive initiative being the primary of its form, in any public sector college of Pakistan. Mr Tanweer is making roughly 9 million {dollars}’ value of funding within the college’s science and expertise park, such that fifty% revenue of the undertaking will go right into a specifically shaped endowment for college students with humble monetary backgrounds. The initiative has the potential of exceptional societal affect when it comes to altering the lives of 1000’s of Pakistani households.”
Engineer Javed Mahmood Bukhari added: “NUST takes pleasure on this transformational partnership with Tanweer Ahmed, which displays on a shared dedication to advancing academic fairness whereas making a optimistic financial affect. With roughly twenty thousand-student inhabitants, Nationwide College of Sciences and Know-how (NUST) Islamabad is likely one of the most sought universities of Pakistan.”
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