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title: "Three doctors sent abroad on HEC scholarship did not return"
description: "Most outlets led with the fact that three doctors from SMBBMU, Larkana, who were sent abroad on a federal government scholarship in 2016, did not return to Pakistan after completing their PhDs. Dawn provided more context, mentioning the total scholarship amount, while ProPakistani framed the issue as a failure to return after completing their studies. Both focused on the non-return, but Dawn included additional financial details in its excerpt."
url: https://harzaviya.com/stories/14416-3-pakistanis-fail-to-come-back-after-completing-phd-on-hec
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# Three doctors sent abroad on HEC scholarship did not return

pakistan · updated 15 Oct 2026, 1:25 PM PKT · 14–15 Oct 2026 · 2 articles from 2 outlets

**HarZaviya summary** — how 2 outlets covered this, generated automatically from their headlines and excerpts:

> Most outlets led with the fact that three doctors from SMBBMU, Larkana, who were sent abroad on a federal government scholarship in 2016, did not return to Pakistan after completing their PhDs. Dawn provided more context, mentioning the total scholarship amount, while ProPakistani framed the issue as a failure to return after completing their studies. Both focused on the non-return, but Dawn included additional financial details in its excerpt.

## Same story from 2 outlets

Each outlet's own headline, most recent first — read any at its source.

- **ProPakistani** — [3 Pakistanis Fail to Come Back After Completing PhD on HEC Scholarship](https://propakistani.pk/2026/10/15/3-pakistanis-fail-to-come-back-after-completing-phd-on-hec-scholarship/) · 15 Oct 2026, 1:25 PM PKT
  > Three doctors from Shaheed Mohtarma Benazir Bhutto Medical University (SMBBMU), Larkana, have failed to return to Pakistan after completing overseas… Read More
- **Dawn** — [Three doctors sent abroad for PhD did not return home, Sindh PAC told](https://www.dawn.com/news/2036979/three-doctors-sent-abroad-for-phd-did-not-return-home-sindh-pac-told) · 14 Oct 2026, 9:29 AM PKT · 82% identical wording to the newest filing
  > KARACHI: Three doctors from Shaheed Mohtarma Benazir Bhutto Medical University (SMBBMU), Larkana, who were sent to China, Germany and the United Kingdom in 2016 on a federal government scholarship worth $129,600 for four-year PhDs, have not returned home after completing their degrees. The revelation came at a meeting of the Sindh Assembly’s Public Accounts Committee (PAC), chaired by Nisar Khu...

2 articles from 2 outlets, 14–15 Oct 2026. Headlines and links belong to their outlets — HarZaviya links out and never copies article text.

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