KARACHI: A delegation of SMIU’s International Leadership Program (ILP) will visit Turkey from 15h to 21st April 2018. The group is comprised of 28 female and male students and 8 faculty and staff members. The delegation will leave for Turkeyon Saturday night. During their visit to Tureky, the delegtion will visit six major universities of Turkey and Prof Dr Syed Asif Ali, Dean faculty of Computer Science will lead the delegation.
Vice Chancellor of SMIU while addressing the students at the inner courtyard of the university, said that it is a unique featuer of SMIU that it had designed a leadership program for its students to provide them learning and training opportunities within the country and on the international level also. He said that since 2015 SMIU’s various groups of students have been called on the heads of the state and heads of various national institutions of the country and have visited major universities located in Islamabad, under the National Leadership Program. Similalry, some other groups of SMIU’s students have been visited UK, China, Malaysia and Turkey under the International Leadership Program
“This is the second trip of SMIU’s students to Turkey. A similar group of students of SMIU visited Turkey last year also,” Dr Shaikh said and added that this time a large group of SMIU’s students is going to visit the very important universiites of our brethern Muslim country Turkey, which are located in three big cities of the country including Istanbul, Ankara and Konya.
Shaikh emphasized the student try to learn more during the visits of various educational institutions of Turkey and keep up their national traditions and values high. He hoped that their visit of a new land will be beneficial for them.