Toi correspondent from Washington: Bankerols by South Asia Institute of Harvard University Indian billionaire Lakshmi MittalRemoved itself from a “Pakistan conference”, it was embarrassed to use an Indian-funded facility from some Indian students on Sunday after a backlash, even as Pakistan, vowed to re-achieve its declining footprint. American education,
The dispute began at a one-day conference after two Indian students, Surabhi Tomar and Abhishek Chaudhuri, in a letter to the university management, urged Harvard to ensure that its campus does not form a platform to enable state-competent state. Religious terrorism“After Pahgam terrorist attack In which 26 people were killed.
The students said in a separate letter to State Secretary Marco Rubio, “To welcome representatives of a government that enables or makes the risks of terrorism.
Pakistan Finance Minister Muhammad Aurangzeb and its ambassador were among us the representatives of the Rizwan Shade Sheikh Conference.
Among other demands, the students urged the Harvard management to issue a public statement condemning the Pahalgam attack and provide emotional and institutional assistance to the affected students, “make clarity, courage and compassion for Hindu and Indian students unhappy for the target killing of their members of their faith.”
A administrator at the South Asia Institute told TOI that the conference was organized by Pakistani students and the institute did not host it beyond providing “some support”.
However, Hitesh Hati, the executive director of the institute, participated in a discussion on “The Annlited Muslim: Investigation of the Crossroads of Religion, Modernity and State Formation in Pakistan” with Pakistani historian Ayesha Jalal. The institute later scrubbed the panel discussion from the conference and its website, showing a link that is showing the message, “not found the page you requested.”
While some Indian students expressed anger at the event by Harvard and Sai, others made fun of Pakistani efforts, ridiculed a country that broke so much that they needed an Indian billionaire to platform their conference. Although according to some attendees, the conference organized by Pakistani students in Harvard, was also aimed at rejuvenating the country’s shortage in American education.
Apart from others, Hamid Mir, a prominent Pakistani journalist who was a representative at the conference and also reported on it, called an Indian clout in the US Academia, who was the head of the Pakistan Ambassador to the US that Islamabad worked to restore many Pakistan chairs, which also included Kudal Azam Kusi at Kolabia University.
According to open doors, which tracks foreign students in the US. Pakistan currently has 10,988 students nominated in US higher education institutions, while India has the highest number of countries, followed by 331,602 students, followed by China 277,398. Even Bangladesh (17,099) and Nepal (16,742) have more students in the US than in Pakistan, whose international reputation is due to hosting terrorist groups and using terrorism as a policy means.
