All public universities to offer Chinese language course

By Shoaib Saleem. Pakistan-China Institute in Islamabad with the collaboration of University of Karachi’s Latif Ebrahim Jamal National Science Information Center is launching courses on “Basic Chinese Language” under the supervision of Professor Attaur Rahman, Professor Iqbal Choudhary and Senator Mushahid Hussain in all public sector universities of Pakistan through video-conferencing. The main objective of the programme is to impart basic Chinese language to Pakistani students which will help them in their future lives, particularly in view of the key role that China is now playing in the world economy and in science and engineering. This course has been designed to help undergraduate, graduate and post-graduate students across Pakistan in basic sciences, applied sciences and social sciences to develop their language skills. More...