{"id":22042,"date":"2026-05-21T15:38:36","date_gmt":"2026-05-21T10:38:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pakalerts.net\/english\/?p=22042"},"modified":"2026-05-21T15:38:36","modified_gmt":"2026-05-21T10:38:36","slug":"pakistan-announces-500-scholarships-for-bangladeshi-students-launches-second-phase-of-knowledge-corridor-programme","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pakalerts.net\/english\/?p=22042","title":{"rendered":"Pakistan Announces 500 Scholarships for Bangladeshi Students, Launches Second Phase of Knowledge Corridor Programme"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Pakistan has announced 500 scholarships for Bangladeshi students over the next five years, while also launching the second phase of the Pakistan-Bangladesh Knowledge Corridor programme.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>According to the Foreign Office spokesperson, Deputy Prime Minister and Foreign Minister Ishaq Dar had announced the launch of the Pakistan-Bangladesh Knowledge Corridor during his visit to Bangladesh in August 2025.<\/p>\n<p>Under the programme, Pakistan will provide 500 educational scholarships to Bangladeshi students over the next five years to strengthen educational and people-to-people ties between the two countries.<\/p>\n<p>The Foreign Office stated that the second phase of the Pakistan-Bangladesh Knowledge Corridor was launched in Dhaka on May 10, 2026, while a Bangladeshi delegation is currently visiting Pakistan for three weeks under the programme.<\/p>\n<p>According to officials, the initiative aims to promote education, research, youth exchanges, and mutual cooperation between the two countries.<\/p>\n<p>Foreign Minister Ishaq Dar also expressed satisfaction over the positive progress in Pakistan-Bangladesh relations and reaffirmed the commitment to further expand bilateral cooperation.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Pakistan has announced 500 scholarships for Bangladeshi students over the next five years, while also launching the second phase of the Pakistan-Bangladesh Knowledge Corridor programme. According to the Foreign Office spokesperson, Deputy Prime Minister and Foreign Minister Ishaq Dar had announced the launch of the Pakistan-Bangladesh Knowledge Corridor during his visit to Bangladesh in August [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":22043,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"googlesitekit_rrm_CAowgLK2DA:productID":"","_sitemap_exclude":false,"_sitemap_priority":"","_sitemap_frequency":"","jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":{"subtitle":""},"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[44,47,46],"tags":[12168,12166,1901,170,12167,8630],"class_list":["post-22042","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-education","category-important-news","category-latest","tag-bangladeshi-students","tag-educational-scholarships","tag-foreign-office","tag-ishaq-dar","tag-knowledge-corridor","tag-pakistan-bangladesh-relations"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pakalerts.net\/english\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22042","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pakalerts.net\/english\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pakalerts.net\/english\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pakalerts.net\/english\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pakalerts.net\/english\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=22042"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/pakalerts.net\/english\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22042\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22044,"href":"https:\/\/pakalerts.net\/english\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22042\/revisions\/22044"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pakalerts.net\/english\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/22043"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pakalerts.net\/english\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=22042"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pakalerts.net\/english\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=22042"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pakalerts.net\/english\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=22042"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}