German-Pakistan Alumni Network meeting held

Published November 18, 2019
Khanzada Asfandyar Khattak performs at the German ambassador’s residence in Islamabad.
Khanzada Asfandyar Khattak performs at the German ambassador’s residence in Islamabad.

The cultural section of the German embassy organised a meeting of the German Pakistan Alumni Network at the embassy auditorium followed by dinner at the residence of German Ambassador Bernhard Schlagheck.

More than 100 alumni who visited Germany on various scholarship programmes such as the DAAD scholarship, the Alexander von Humboldt scholarship, the Cross Culture Programme scholarship and participants of subject-related short-term trips to Germany offered by the German Federal Foreign Office as well as German language teachers who attended trainings in Germany funded by Goethe-Institut were in attendance.

Ambassador Schlagheck expressed his pleasure at hosting the meeting, stressing the importance of people-to-people contact.

The event ended with cultural performances in the garden of the residence by Khanzada Asfandyar Khattak and Alina Chaudry.

Published in Dawn, November 18th, 2019

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