Pakistan To Resolve Visa Issues Of Students With Chinese Authorities

Pakistan will take up the unresolved visa issues of students with Chinese authorities to ensure continuation of their education in the host country, said Special Assistant to the Prime Minister on Overseas Pakistanis and Human Resource Development Sayed Zulfikar Abbas Bukhari on Saturday after taking note of their complaints, lodged at different forums.

Pakistan To Resolve Visa Issues Of Students With Chinese Authorities

In a news release, Zulfikar Bukhari said he had also instructed his ministry to arrange travel for the students enrolled in different universities of China.
This would be carried out in collaboration with the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and other relevant departments.

He urged the students intending to go back to register themselves at a link shared by his ministry at its official social media pages available at Twitter and Facebook.

As per initial reports, there were a number of students, businessman and workers, who were repatriated during the Coronavirus relief operation, had been waiting for their return to China.

Most of them had been stuck in Pakistan due to visa related issues, the ministry said.

Pakistani student pursuing dreams in China to serve Pakistan in future: Muhammad Usman, a Pakistan student pursuing his research in Lanzhou University in China hoped to work for improvement of waste management and production of renewable energy after completion of his studies.

‘I hope that when we go back to Pakistan, we would improve the situation of waste management and the production of renewable energy,’ he told China Economic Net (CEN).

Having been in China for almost three years, Muhammad Usman is doing PhD on microbiology in Lanzhou University, one of China’s top universities.

Recently his thesis titled Determination of the inhibitory concentration level of fat, oil, and grease (FOG) towards bacterial and archaeal communities in anaerobic digestion got published on Renewable and Sustainable Energy Reviews, the reputed journal with the highest impact factor in the field of energy as per Elsevier.

‘Frankly speaking, initially when I came to China in 2017, it was challenging to adjust myself to life here due to the language barrier, the different culture and food habits,’ he told China Economic Net adding, ‘but with the passage of time, I come to interact with some Chinese fellows and learn Chinese culture and language.’ ‘I got my CSC Scholarship offered by China Scholarship Council in 2017.

And studying here has been a good experience. The facilities provided by Lanzhou University and my advisors – Prof. Li Xiangkai and Prof. El-Sayed Salama – are the major reasons that I was able to pursue my research dreams here.’

Originally published at Pakistan observer