Partial Scholarships

Mr Ammad Ahmad's engagement with the Oxford Pakistan Programme emerged organically through his longstanding association with Oxford's innovation and entrepreneurial ecosystem. Deeply committed to expanding opportunity through education, he was drawn to OPP's mission of identifying and supporting exceptional Pakistani students with the potential to lead and create lasting impact.

He believes that education is the most powerful pathway to progress and that investing in talented individuals is a collective responsibility. In supporting OPP, Mr Ahmad champions its focused approach to nurturing high-potential students and equipping them with the tools, networks, and confidence to contribute meaningfully to Pakistan's future.

For over three centuries, the Pirs of Luari have championed education, the establishment of learning institutions, and the promotion of love, peace, and social harmony. Continuing this legacy, Pir Muhammad Sadiq, the 9th Pir of Luari and son of the late Pir Faiz Muhammad Qureshi, supports deserving students — preferably female students — from rural Sindh in accessing higher education.

Through his contribution to the Oxford Pakistan Programme, he seeks to enable talented students from Sindh to pursue graduate studies at Oxford and contribute meaningfully to their communities and to Pakistan. His support reflects his family's longstanding commitment to fostering knowledge, opportunity, and social progress through education.

This Scholarship is dedicated to the memory of a father who left home in Pakistan in the 1950s as a young man in search of a future. Sailing to Basra, he had no fixed plan for where he would go. His journey brought him — and after marriage, his wife — to Britain, where they made a future for themselves. They navigated poverty, violence and racism, the confusions of a new land, and found friendship and some belonging in a place so different to 'back home'. They worked hard, paid their taxes, raised a family and contributed to their community. In today's language, they would be called, often disparagingly, 'economic migrants'.

They insisted their children go to university so that they could improve their life chances and contribute to society, never forgetting where they came from. Those children and their grandchildren studied in London, Oxford and Huddersfield, and went on to work in local and national government, banks, the health and education services, and the charity sector. They represented Britain abroad and are proud to call themselves British Pakistanis. This Scholarship exists to promote opportunities for Pakistanis and British Pakistanis facing hardship to envisage and realise a better future for themselves, their families and communities.