AIOU sends prospectuses and admission forms to the prisons throughout the country.

Islamabad -- Allama Iqbal Open University(AIOU) is providing free of cost education to the prisoners throughout the country so that after getting education, they may becomes responsible citizens of the country. In this regard, university has dispatched prospectuses and admissions forms to all the prisons for the programs offered in the 1st phase of spring 2021 admissions including matriculation, FA (General) and FA (Dars e Nizami). Prisoners have been instructed to submit the admission forms by February 22, 2021. Prof Dr Zia Ul- Qayyum is keenly interested in the education of jail inmates to make them responsible citizens of the country and to enable them to earn respectable livelihood. Tutorial meetings and examinations would be held within the premises of prisons and these would be declared as...