The Viqarun Nisa and Feroz Khan Noon Trust for Education Sets Up Endowment Fund for Graduate Students - Press Release issued by Lahore University of Management Sciences.

Lahore -- May 22, 2021 (PPI-OT)

Following is the text of press release issued by Lahore University of Management Sciences (LUMS)

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A recent addition to the list of benefactors of LUMS is the Viqarun Nisa and Feroz Khan Noon Trust for Education. The Trust has gifted the University PKR 11 million to set up the 'Lady Viqarun Nisa Noon Endowment Fund', which will sponsor the studies of one Graduate student in perpetuity.

The Viqarun Nisa and Feroz Khan Noon Trust for Education was founded in 1992 by Lady Viqarun Nisa Noon, widow of the late Sir Feroz Khan Noon, with the objective of providing financial support to meritorious scholars from Pakistan for their post-graduate studies.

The Trust is managed by Chairperson, Syeda Abida Hussain, a seasoned politician belonging to one of the most prominent political families of Pakistan. A former National Assembly member from Jhang, Punjab, she also served as Pakistan's Ambassador to the United States and as a Federal...