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Pakistan and Hungary on Thursday signed a renewed Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) to extend and expand educational cooperation under the Stipendium Hungaricum Programme for 2026–2028, marking a major boost for academic opportunities available to Pakistani students.

Deputy Prime Minister and Foreign Minister Ishaq Dar and Hungary’s Minister of Foreign Affairs and Trade Péter Szijjártó signed the agreement, which formalises continued cooperation between the two governments in providing scholarships across undergraduate, graduate, and doctoral levels.

The Stipendium Hungaricum Programme — introduced for Pakistan in 2015 — has grown into a cornerstone of bilateral educational ties. The annual quota, initially set at 80 scholarships, rose to 200 in 2017 and reached 400 by 2023, t

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