Pakistan's offer over online, virtual education to Afghan students reiterated.

ISLAMABAD -- President Dr Arif Alvi Monday reiterated Pakistan's offer to provide virtual and online education facilities to the students of Afghanistan through Allama Iqbal Open University (AIOU) and the Virtual University of Pakistan (VUP).

Talking to Mufti Taqi Usmani, after being informed that Mufti Sahib was going to Afghanistan for discussions with the leadership, the president said that since Afghanistan did not possess nationwide internet connectivity, therefore, initially the education materials of AIOU and VUP could be communicated to Afghan students, both male and female, through its television network.

The offer was made when the Minister of Education of Afghanistan had visited the president and said that higher education was in dire straits in Afghanistan.

On various occasions, the president had communicated government of Pakistan's offers of providing online and virtual education facilities to Afghanistan during his meetings with the Afghan ambassador and Afghan counsel generals and with other Afghan government leadership, directly or indirectly, through his interaction with them.

The president said that the government and the state of Pakistan believed in providing equal educational opportunities for women, at par with its...