{"id":16629,"date":"2026-02-02T12:34:50","date_gmt":"2026-02-02T12:34:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.peakpoint.pk\/en\/2026\/02\/02\/opening-farabi-centre-pakistan-kazakhstan\/"},"modified":"2026-02-02T12:34:50","modified_gmt":"2026-02-02T12:34:50","slug":"opening-farabi-centre-pakistan-kazakhstan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.peakpoint.pk\/en\/2026\/02\/02\/opening-farabi-centre-pakistan-kazakhstan\/","title":{"rendered":"Opening Farabi Centre Strengthens Pakistan Kazakhstan Ties"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The minister of Science and Higher Education of Kazakhstan, Nurbek, visited Quaid-i-Azam University alongside Federal Minister for Education and Vocational Training Khalid Maqbool Siddiqui to inaugurate the new Farabi Centre on campus. The opening of the Farabi Centre marks a visible step in academic cooperation between Pakistan and Kazakhstan.<\/p>\n<p>During the visit Nurbek reflected on historical intellectual currents, noting a past era of Islamic influence on scholarship and saying that Al-Farabi was essential to Western thought and is often regarded as a second teacher after Aristotle. He also highlighted Kazakhstan&#8217;s significant potential in agriculture and signalled interest in academic collaboration in this sector.<\/p>\n<p>Khalid Maqbool Siddiqui described the current global situation as delicate and called the inauguration a milestone in Pakistan Kazakhstan relations. He said both countries should actively seek further opportunities to deepen bilateral ties in education, research and vocational training, linking the Farabi Centre&#8217;s work to those goals.<\/p>\n<p>The university presented honorary shields to both leaders in recognition of the visit. The Farabi Centre is expected to serve as a platform for joint research, academic exchanges and projects that could include agricultural development, reflecting the ministers&#8217; emphasis on education-driven cooperation.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Farabi Centre inauguration by Kazakhstan&#8217;s science minister and Pakistan&#8217;s education minister advances Pakistan Kazakhstan cooperation.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":16628,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[94],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16629","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-pakistan"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.peakpoint.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16629","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.peakpoint.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.peakpoint.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.peakpoint.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.peakpoint.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16629"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.peakpoint.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16629\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.peakpoint.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/16628"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.peakpoint.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16629"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.peakpoint.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16629"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.peakpoint.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16629"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}