Law Graduates Scholarship Program for Balochistan for Study Abroad Eligibility Criteria

Eligibility Criteria

Applicant must possess the Domicile/Local Certificate of Balochistan Province.
Maximum age as of closing date of applications:

LLM: 30 years
PhD: 35 years

For LLM and PhD scholarships, the candidates must have completed LLB and LLM respectively, from HEC recognized Universities/DAIs on or before the closing date of the application with at least 50% marks in Bachelor degree.
Applicant must secure minimum 50% Marks (Accumulative Test Score) in Aptitude Test.
Any applicant who is already availing any other scholarship is not eligible to apply.

Important Note:

Eligible applicants will be shortlisted on the basis of Test and Academic credential scores. The scholarships will be awarded on the basis of Merit.
15-20% scholarships will be reserved for the children of victim's families (Martyred/severely injured) in the blast of August 8, 2016 at Quetta, if they fulfil the required criteria.
In case of non-availability of students from victim families, scholarships will be awarded on merit to other eligible candidates.
Applicant must meet HEC and University eligibility criteria in place for admission in LLM & PhD programmes.
Local LLM scholarship will only be awarded to the students studying/ seeking admission in HEC recognized Public Sector Universities / institutes or W-category Private Universities.
Foreign scholarship applicants have to provide admission letter in top 500 universities (in QS Ranking) after the selection.
Merit list of scholarships will be prepared on the basis of online information/data provided by the applicants and in case of any misrepresentation/error/omission, the scholarship shall be cancelled at any stage.
If the applicants are already employed/serving, they should be from the law relevant field (Practicing Advocate, Judicial officer, Law faculty members and Prosecutors from Prosecution departments). The Scholarship Management Committee would review the organizations of already employed applicants. The decision of the committee to consider the already employed applicants will be final and not challengeable.
Serving Employees will be required to provide NOC and study leave from their respective organizations.
Only those applicants, who meet the eligibility criteria and other requirements will be considered for further shortlisting.
HEC reserves the right to postpone or cancel the scholarship process at any stage without assigning any reason.

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