Pakistan

The range of initiatives in Pakistan through the BCCI Foundation and funded from the profits of BCCI reflected the wider commitment of its founder, Agha Hasan Abedi, to science, technology, education and human advancement.

Handwritten jotting by Mr Agha Hasan Abedi, President of BCCI, believed to have been made during a Karachi - London flight in July 1978, outlining his thoughts on establishing a foundation in Pakistan.
BCCI Foundation London April 1984: Report of Panel of Specialists for Setting up Model Integrated Centre for Children and Their Families

BCCI Foundation (now, INFAQ Foundation)

The BCCI Foundation, now known as the INFAQ Foundation, supported a wide range of cultural, educational, scientific and social-welfare projects in Pakistan and other countries. Its activities formed part of BCCI’s broader commitment to education, human development and assistance for disadvantaged communities. These include the following projects:

Centre for Development of Social Services (CDSS) to promote community welfare programmes, including community development , provide quality education and medical aid to the poor, and support meritorious students for higher studies.
Korangi Academy (KA) to impart quality education and enhance faculties of the talented and deserving children of deprived families.
Infaq Education & Training Centre (IETC) to provide quality and informal and informal for girls through its Senior Girls' School, Intermediate Girls' College, Graduate Classes and Elementary Teachers' Training.
Infaq Community Health Care Centre (ICHC) to provide health care services to students of CDSS projects and their families.
Craft Training & Adult Literacy Centre (CTALC) to empower the community girls around the CDSS through acquiring technical/vocational skills.
SOS Technical Training Institute - a joint venture of SOS Children Villages of Sindh province and INFAQ Foundation. INFAQ bears the cost of building, equipment, furniture, fixtures and training aids, SOS bears the running expenses to manage the Institute as a social welfare project.
Boys Hostel to provide accommodation throughout the academic session at no cost.

Computer Literacy Project

BCCI launched its Computer Literacy Project in Pakistan in 1983 through the Management Services Division of its Central Office in London. Described as an initiative to educate “today’s children in the technology of tomorrow”, the project introduced schoolchildren to computers at a time when access to information technology in developing countries remained limited.

The programme formed part of BCCI’s broader commitment to education, scientific advancement and development in the Third World. By encouraging computer awareness among younger students, it sought to prepare a new generation for the technological changes expected to shape future education, employment and economic development.

FAST Institute of Computer Science (now FAST-NUCES) - A pioneering computer education in Pakistan

Ghulam Ishaq Khan Institute of Engineering Sciences and Technology (GIKI) - A powerhouse of technical education

NEST - New and Emerging Sciences and Technology - A scientific organisation headed by Dr I. H. Usmani, former Chairman of the Pakistan Atomic Energy Commission. Because of Dr Usmani’s earlier involvement in Pakistan’s civil nuclear-energy programme, some contemporary reports associated BCCI’s support for NEST with the country’s nuclear programme. The available evidence does not establish that funds provided to NEST were used for the development of nuclear weapons. NEST was presented as an initiative supporting scientific research, education and emerging technologies, and the reported donations were made after much of Pakistan’s nuclear capability had already been developed. Separate allegations involving the use of BCCI accounts in attempted nuclear-related procurement should therefore not be treated as evidence concerning the purpose of BCCI’s funding of NEST.

Pakistan

BCCI Foundation (now, INFAQ Foundation)

Computer Literacy Project

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