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| 1,000 Cuban scholarships for Pak students |
| 2006-08-27 |
| ISLAMABAD: The Higher Education Commission has announced scholarships for Pakistani students by the Cuban government for graduate studies in general comprehensive medicine (equivalent to MBBS), in leading Cuban medical institutions. The HEC has finalised project implementation plan and other details with the Cuban embassy after the prime minister's directive for preparation of the scholarship detail. A committee headed by HEC Chairman Prof Dr Atta-ur-Rahman was formed, which includes representatives of the Ministry of Education and the Ministry of Health. The first meeting held on August 24 was attended by HEC Executive Director of HEC Dr Sohail H Naqvi, Human Resource Development Advisor, Dr S Mahmood Raza, Project Director, Rezwana Siddiqui, representative of the Ministry of Education, the Ministry of Health, PIMS and Member Planning Commission Gen (r) Dr Iftikhar Hameed. |
| Posted by:Fred |
| #12 Muzzies like their women wrapped in black because muzzie boys have no self control (and never take personal responsibility for their behavior). The Pakis will have a hard time dealing with the hot women to be found throughout Cuba. |
| Posted by: Mark Z 2006-08-27 19:47 |
| #11 #9 tw: "Not to mention that $12,000/household that Hizb'allah committed them to in South Lebanon and Beirut." That doesn't need to come from Iran, tw - though the Hezzie printing presses probably did. |
| Posted by: Barbara Skolaut 2006-08-27 16:05 |
| #10 Pak docs run the gamut from awful to pretty good. Pakistan has a few good medical schools (e.g., Aga Khan Univ., and 'good' defined on a global scale). A fair proportion of the better ones learn English and come to the US/UK to obtain further training, and some of them decide to stay on with the infidels. Importing Pak docs to Cuba isn't that much of a stretch -- the classes very likely will be in English, and again, some of the Paks are good. |
| Posted by: Steve White 2006-08-27 15:59 |
| #9 Some of that $50 billion will have to go to resupplying Hizb'allah, and training replacements for their casualties. Not to mention that $12,000/household that Hizb'allah committed them to in South Lebanon and Beirut. |
| Posted by: trailing wife 2006-08-27 14:05 |
| #8 "Iran will have $50 billion more petro-dollars to play with this year. Money means persuasion; missiles means coercion . . . " The Iranian oil money is no doubt "helping" the latin-leftist/jihadi link. How I wish this was all a bad dream. |
| Posted by: ex-lib 2006-08-27 11:33 |
| #7 so Cuba ships Docs to Venezuela and imports Paks? Got to love that State-run free medical system they have |
| Posted by: Frank G 2006-08-27 10:54 |
| #6 Seafarious: If reports are accurate, Iran will have $50 billion more petro-dollars to play with this year. Money means persuasion; missiles means coercion. For reasons that are too numerous to count, the Ayatollahs have to go. |
| Posted by: Snease Shaiting3550 2006-08-27 10:25 |
| #5 Cuba's guests will want subsidized Islamic centers and Muslim Family Law. And Cuba's official Atheism will have to change or the tiny minority of extremists might have to plant bombs. I posted an article a few months ago that Cuba had a small but increasingly confident Iranian-backed Shia contingent that was strong enough to begin agitating publically for their own mosque. They stated they had about seventy members, which I estimated was about right for an effective terror cell. |
| Posted by: Seafarious 2006-08-27 10:04 |
| #4 I suspect the growing integration of latin american leftists with jihadis is one reason we've been slowly emptying Gitmo. A couple months back I had a chance to chat with the guy who was US military attache in Venezuela when the coup almost deposed Chavez a couple years ago. He had some stories to tell - most of which he didn't, but the bits that did come out were disturbing. |
| Posted by: lotp 2006-08-27 09:19 |
| #3 They're to attack the Guantanamo Bay facility? What fun for the troops! It'll be interesting to see how Pakistan and Cuba try to explain that the result is actually a victory ("Yeah, we lasted 15 minutes against them! The other team only lasted 10!"). As for the education bit -- Cuba is going to have to remedialize them back to second grade before they'll be prepared to take on a real medical school. Either way it'll be humiliating for them, and expensive for Cuba. Perhaps this latest incident affected Castro's brain. |
| Posted by: trailing wife 2006-08-27 08:55 |
| #2 This will lead to operations to free Gitmo terrorists, take it too the bank, chavez has made a deal, this is but a cover story to get the independent forces on the island. |
| Posted by: Ulinetch Uloluse9536 2006-08-27 08:36 |
| #1 Cuba's guests will want subsidized Islamic centers and Muslim Family Law. And Cuba's official Atheism will have to change or the tiny minority of extremists might have to plant bombs. |
| Posted by: Snease Shaiting3550 2006-08-27 06:26 |