Saman Tariq Malik, an English major from Lahore University of Management Sciences has won the prestigious Rhodes Scholarship. Each year the Rhodes Trust awards this scholarship to one person from each member country to study at Oxford. Saman is the Rhodes Scholar-elect from Pakistan for the year 2017. She competed for this scholarship against an estimated 4,000 applications from Pakistan this year.

The result was announced on the 26th of November 2016 by Babar Sattar, the National Secretary for Pakistan Rhodes Scholarship Selection Committee, following the interviews held in Islamabad.

Vice Chancellor LUMS, Dr. Sohail Naqvi extended his felicitations while commenting that "Saman took full advantage of the open, interdisciplinary environment of LUMS, working with the resident and visiting international faculty to produce her insightful research thesis focusing on the literary histories of South Asia.-PR

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