ISLAMABAD: Pakistan and the USSR today [June 15] signed a programme of cultural and scientific exchanges providing for wide-ranging co-operation between the two countries in the fields of science, education, art and culture, radio, TV and sports. The programme, drawn up in accordance with the Pakistan Soviet agreement on cultural and scientific co-operation, 1965, was signed by the Secretary, Ministry of Education and Scientific Research ... [and the] Soviet Ambassador …

In the field of science and education, Pakistan will send 15 students and teachers for study and training in the higher educational institutions of the USSR. Pakistan will also send one scholar to an institution of nuclear research in the USSR for a period of one year. Four to six Pakistani scientists will also do research work in Soviet scientific institutions. The programme also provides for promotion of scientific contacts between the State University in Dushanbe and the University of the Punjab, and the Leningrad State University and the University of Dacca.

Under the agreed programme, two Soviet students will study Urdu and Bengali languages in Pakistani Universities, each for one year, and two Soviet language teachers will be sent to selected institutions in Pakistan for a period of three years each. — Agency

Published in Dawn, June 16th, 2020