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COLOMBO – Pakistan has donated a fully-equipped information technology (IT) lab comprising 15 computers and related equipment to the Hameed Al Husseinie College in Colombo on Wednesday through its High Commission in Sri Lanka.

The new IT lab will be used to impart diploma certificates in various IT fields to the students as well as old students of the college for increasing their skills and improving prospects for better employment opportunities. Pakistan’s High Commissioner Syed Shakeel Hussain inaugurated the Mohammad Ali Jinnah Computer Centre.

Representatives of Sri Lanka Pakistan Friendship Association and old boys association of the college as well as college administration also participated in the function. In his brief remarks during the ceremony, the high commissioner emphasised the importance of the information communication technology in broadening the knowledge-base of the students.

He called upon the students to make maximum use of the facility to enhance their capabilities. He hoped that the computer skills and training acquired at the Jinnah Computer Centre would contribute towards younger generation’s academic pursuits and would help in enhancing their nation-building capabilities.

Hussain expressed the hope that the Sri Lankan youth would use this facility as a bridge to knowledge, creativity, and innovation. He also reiterated Pakistan’s continued support to Sri Lanka in enhancing younger generation’s academic capacities with better educational facilities.

The Hameed Al Husseinie College is the oldest Muslim college of Sri Lanka and it has a long history that is spreads over 130 years. It was established in November 1884 as the Al Madrasathul Khairiyyathul Islamiah School. The school was officially granted college status in 1991, and was renamed Hameed Al Husseinie College. It was elevated to a National School on July 26, 1996.

Presently, the school has an enrollment of over 2200 students, with 120 teachers as the instructional staff for the institution. Pakistan through its High Commission in Colombo has been assisting various social sector organisations in Sri Lanka, both in the public and the private sector, through various projects relating to education, health, housing, livelihood generation, water supply and sanitation, vocational training and cultural promotion.

As part of this effort in education sector, the government and people of Pakistan have so far established over 35 computer centres throughout the Island, built state of the art schools, award of annual Jinnah scholarships and fully-funded professional scholarships in medicine, engineering, dentistry and pharmacy. In education field, the relationship between Pakistan and Sri Lanka will help the future generation to have better prospects in their future endeavours.

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