{"id":3751,"date":"2015-02-17T16:19:34","date_gmt":"2015-02-17T10:49:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pakistanhc.lk\/?p=3751"},"modified":"2020-01-09T00:16:18","modified_gmt":"2020-01-08T18:46:18","slug":"pakistani-students-in-sri-lanka-on-student-exchange-programme","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.pakistanhc.lk\/?p=3751","title":{"rendered":"Pakistani Students in Sri Lanka on Student Exchange Programme"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: left;\" align=\"right\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.pakistanhc.lk\/2015\/02\/pakistani-students-in-sri-lanka-on-student-exchange-programme\/dscn4965\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-3752\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-3752\" title=\"DSCN4965\" src=\"http:\/\/www.pakistanhc.lk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/DSCN4965-300x136.jpg\" alt=\"Pakistani Students in Sri Lanka on Student Exchange Programme\" width=\"300\" height=\"136\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\" align=\"right\">\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\" align=\"right\"><span style=\"font-size: 12px;\">A- 13 member student delegation\u00a0along with their teachers from Centre for Advance Studies (C.A.S) Karachi is visiting Sri Lanka under a Student Exchange Programme with Ladies College Colombo and St. Thomas College, Mount Lavinia.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 12px;\">The Student Exchange Programme between the partnering institutes is continuing for several years and the current visit was preceded by the visit of the student\u2019s delegation from Ladies College Colombo to Pakistan.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 12px;\">Under the Programme, the students stay with their host families in respective countries to familiarize themselves with the culture and way of life of the host country.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 12px;\">The students along with their Sri Lankan hosts visited Pakistan High Commission on 16<sup>th<\/sup>\u00a0February 2015, for a briefing.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 12px;\">While, briefing the delegation about Pakistan Sri Lanka relation, the High Commissioner of Pakistan in Sri Lanka Major Gen(R) Qasim Qureshi highlighted that the two countries continue to enjoy excellent relations and there is a strong will on both sides to further develop and promote these relations.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Garamond, serif; font-size: 12px;\">HE Qasim Qureshi\u00a0emphasized\u00a0that such visits and people to people contacts are an\u00a0excellent way to promote understanding and friendship between the two nations. He expressed the hope that the visit would add value to the already strengthened bonds of friendship between Pakistan and Sri Lanka.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 12px;\">He added that more frequent people-to-people contacts through enhanced student and faculty exchanges between learning institutions of the two countries would further promote this relationship. He assured that the High Commission would continue to patronize and support such initiatives.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 12px;\">The delegation would also visit Galle, Kandy, Anuradhapura and Sigirya during their stay in Sri Lanka. The return visit by the students of Ladies College and St. Thomas College to Pakistan would take place in October 2015.<\/span><\/p>\n<div><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A- 13 member student delegation\u00a0along with their teachers from Centre for Advance Studies (C.A.S) Karachi is visiting Sri Lanka under a Student Exchange Programme with Ladies College Colombo and St. Thomas College, Mount Lavinia. 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