{"id":102281,"date":"2025-04-12T09:55:18","date_gmt":"2025-04-12T09:55:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nationaltimes.pk\/eng\/?p=102281"},"modified":"2025-04-12T09:55:18","modified_gmt":"2025-04-12T09:55:18","slug":"usefp-denies-closure-of-fulbright-programme-for-pakistanis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nationaltimes.pk\/eng\/2025\/102281\/","title":{"rendered":"USEFP denies closure of Fulbright Programme for Pakistanis"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Pakistan(National Times)- ISLAMABAD: The United States Educational Foundation\u00a0in Pakistan (USEFP),\u00a0a platform that provides Pakistanis with\u00a0opportunities to study abroad, denied reports on Friday about the termination of the Fulbright Programme. In a statement, the USEFP said that several US government-funded exchange programmes, including the Fulbright Programme, remained in place and were available to Pakistanis.\u00a0 &#8220;Fulbright participants in the United States continue to receive their stipends. Assertions that the Fulbright Programme has been terminated or that students will be left stranded in the United States are false,&#8221; it said. The statement follows the recent termination of the Global Undergraduate Exchange Programme in Pakistan which continued operations for 15 years. The Fulbright Programme has a solid foothold in Pakistan, offering generous funding for Master\u2019s and PhD courses, along with a fellowship for Foreign Language Teaching Assistants.\u00a0 The foundation also denied any changes in the status of Pakistani students currently participating in the Global UGRAD.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Pakistan(National Times)- ISLAMABAD: The United States Educational Foundation\u00a0in Pakistan (USEFP),\u00a0a platform that provides Pakistanis with\u00a0opportunities to study abroad, denied reports on Friday about the termination of the Fulbright Programme. In a statement, the USEFP said that several US government-funded exchange programmes, including the Fulbright Programme, remained in place and were available to Pakistanis.\u00a0 &#8220;Fulbright participants [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":102282,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-102281","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-national","entry"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v25.0 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>USEFP denies closure of Fulbright Programme for Pakistanis - Nation<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/nationaltimes.pk\/eng\/2025\/102281\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"USEFP denies closure of Fulbright Programme for Pakistanis - Nation\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Pakistan(National Times)- ISLAMABAD: The United States Educational Foundation\u00a0in Pakistan (USEFP),\u00a0a platform that provides Pakistanis with\u00a0opportunities to study abroad, denied reports on Friday about the termination of the Fulbright Programme. 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