{"id":27091,"date":"2022-10-17T13:25:51","date_gmt":"2022-10-17T13:25:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/?p=27091"},"modified":"2022-10-18T12:39:38","modified_gmt":"2022-10-18T12:39:38","slug":"apag-awards-quaid-e-azam-scholarships-amongst-10-pakistani-american-students","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/archives\/27091","title":{"rendered":"APAG awards \u2018Quaid-e-Azam Scholarships\u2019 amongst 10 Pakistani-American students"},"content":{"rendered":"

New York: The American-Pakistani Advocacy Group (APAG) awarded first-of-its-kind Quaid-e-Azam Scholarships to ten Pakistani-American students, with the aim of supporting them in their academic endeavors, and nurturing future leadership qualities.<\/strong><\/p>\n

This scholarship is aimed at providing need-based assistance for first-generation Pakistani college students currently attending CUNY\/SUNY schools. The scholarship aims to aid these students in their academic endeavors and to cultivate leaders of the next generation.<\/p>\n

The ceremony, held in the Royal Mirage Hall Jamaica Avenue, Queens village New York began with the recitation of a few verses of the Holy Quran.<\/p>\n

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The national anthems of Pakistan and America were also played in the ceremony with national zest.<\/p>\n

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The President of American Pakistani Advocacy Group Ali Rashid informed about the aims and objectives of the organization and shed light on its activities.<\/p>\n

Speaking to Voice of South Asia (VOSA TV), Ali Rashid said that for the first time, the Quaid-e-Azam Muhammad Ali Jinnah Scholarship has been given to ten children on merit to help them in their educational endeavors and nurture them to become future leaders.<\/p>\n

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Quaid-e-Azam Scholarship Certificates were awarded to the students in the function.<\/p>\n

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Appreciating the initiative of APAG, the students said that they are very happy to get the scholarship.<\/p>\n

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Addressing the participants, Consul General of Pakistan in New York Ayesha Ali said: \u201cwe are starting an internship program with the efforts of the Pakistani Consulate in New York, and we welcome all students who want to be a part of it.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Deputy Inspector Adeel Rana, President of Muslim Officer Society, said that it is a pleasure to participate in this event today because the students present in the function are the bright image of our future.<\/p>\n

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The US officers said that they are present in the program with the future leaders, and celebrating their success which they have achieved in the form of scholarship.<\/p>\n

Councilwoman Linda Lee said APAG’s services to the community are commendable.<\/p>\n

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Linda Lee also presented citations to members of the APAG for their community service.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

New York: The American-Pakistani Advocacy Group (APAG) awarded first-of-its-kind Quaid-e-Azam Scholarships to ten Pakistani-American students, with the aim of supporting them in their academic endeavors, and nurturing future leadership qualities. This scholarship is aimed at providing need-based assistance for first-generation Pakistani college students currently attending CUNY\/SUNY schools. The scholarship aims to aid these students in […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":27100,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1469,31,32,1378,37],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-27091","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-new-york","category-news","category-pakistan","category-us","category-world"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27091","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=27091"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27091\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":27120,"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27091\/revisions\/27120"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/27100"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27091"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=27091"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=27091"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}