Islamabad: The federal government has decided to use the 190 million pounds of money laundering returned to Pakistan by the UK’s National Crime Agency, which is currently in the custody of the Supreme Court of Pakistan, for educational purposes, including the establishment of the Danish University of Emerging Technologies.
Former Prime Minister Imran Khan is serving a 14-year prison sentence for the private use of the same amount of Rs 54 billion under the guise of the Al-Qadir Trust.
Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif has now allowed this money to be used for educational purposes and the Supreme Court of Pakistan has also expressed its consent to it.
Therefore, the government has decided that with this money, Danish University of Emerging Technologies in Islamabad and Danish Schools in remote and backward areas will be established.
Prime Minister Shahbaz Sharif had launched the plan to establish Danish schools in 2010 with the aim of providing quality education to the poor in the most backward areas.
Although education is now a matter for the provinces after the 18th Amendment, the federal government will use this money to establish Danish schools in the most backward areas. The standard for admission of children in Danish schools is that their parents belong to the poorest families who fall under the Benazir Income Support Program.
Seats in these schools are divided equally between boys and girls. Prime Minister Shahbaz Sharif has formed a 10-member committee of experts headed by Federal Minister Ahsan Iqbal for the establishment of the University of Technology and Danish schools, which will prepare the program and list of schools for the proposed university.
The Prime Minister himself will head this 11-member committee. According to sources, this committee, headed by the Prime Minister, will not only enact the necessary legislation for the establishment of the university, but will also monitor its construction over a period of one and a half years.
