About 4500 Allama Iqbal Scholarships:
Are you seeking a fully financed scholarship? Are you interested in pursuing your bachelor’s, master’s, or PhD at prestigious universities in Pakistan?
If affirmative, submit an application for the 4500 Fully Funded Allama Iqbal Scholarships. Concise programs Degrees in business and law Phase Ill of the Project entitled “Allama Muhammad Iqbal Scholarships for Afghan Nationals” has been announced by the Higher Education Commission Pakistan. This initiative aims to provide 4500 Afghan youth with high-quality education in medicine, engineering, agriculture, management sciences, social sciences, computer science, and other fields in order to help them build their capacity.
As a whole, the Project will help Pakistan and Afghanistan get closer as a pair, and it will also facilitate more personal interactions between the citizens of these two friendly nations.
Scholarship Details:
- Announced date: August 18, 2025.
- Deadline: October 10, 2025.
- Number of scholarships: 4500.
- Host country: Pakistan.
- Type of scholarship: fully funded.
- Eligibility country: Afghan Nation.
- Level of education: Bachelor’s, Master’s, and Ph.D.
Criteria for Eligibility
Afghan people with a strong academic background are invited to apply. The candidates must meet the following qualifying requirements.
Bachelor’s degree
- Candidates must possess 12 years of schooling or its equivalent.
- The age restriction is 17 to 23 years as of the application closing date.
- The minimum required scores for general courses should be 60% according to the IBCC Pakistan equivalency method, whereas for Medical and Engineering disciplines, it should be 65%.
- Medical and engineering students are required to meet the PM&DC and PEC criteria of 60% and 65%, respectively.
Maseter degree:
- The age restriction is 35 years.
- Completed 16 years of schooling. A minimum CGPA of 2.5 or its equivalent on a 4.0 scale is necessary for a Bachelor’s or Master’s degree (16 years of schooling).
Ph.D. Degree:
- The age restriction is 35 years for non-faculty members and 40 years for faculty members.
- Applicants must possess a minimum of 18 years of study, namely an MS or MPhil degree.
- A minimum CGPA of 3.0 on a 4.0 scale is necessary for the MS/MPhil degree.
Objective:
- The explicit project goals encompass.
- To provide sponsorship for Afghan students to get excellent education
To build professional ties between the sister institutions of the two nations. - To advance human resource development for the rebuilding of Afghanistan
- To cultivate interpersonal connections between the two neighboring nations.
- To foster sympathy for Pakistan among the Afghan populace and to promote professional connections between the institutions of both nations.
- To enable Pakistani institutions to recruit students from neighboring nations for superior education.
Important Note:
- Scholarships will be granted based on merit.
- Candidates must possess the necessary academic qualification by the closing date.
- Candidates with a foreign qualification must submit an equivalency certificate from IBCC Pakistan or HEC Pakistan to the University.
- Scholarships for Ms/Ph.D. will not be granted in Clinical Medical Sciences.
To get admission to the Ph.D. program, the student must have pursued the same discipline in their MS/M.Phil program. - Candidates now receiving or who have previously received any other HEC or Government of Pakistan scholarship are unable to apply.
- The selected recipients must sign a formal agreement with the Government of Pakistan to finish their studies and return to Afghanistan at the conclusion of their degree in Pakistan.
How to apply:
Applicants are required to submit the application online via the HEC website. Here