NEW YORK (APP) - The parents of Momina Cheema, a 25-year-old Pakistani student who died in a road accident last month, announced establishment of a scholarship at the University of Virginia School of Law, her alma mater, to honour the memory of their daughter.
The announcement was made by Momina’s parents—Tayeba Zia, a columnist for the Daily Nawa-i-Waqt and Dr. Akhtar Cheema, a medical specialist—on the occasion of her Chehlum at their residence in Queens, a borough of New York City.
The scholarship will be funded at $100,000, and the school will begin giving awards when the funding has reached $50,000, according to Paul Mahoney, the Dean of the school.
‘The scholarship would be awarded annually and a preference would be given to students who express an interest in Islamic law or culture’, Dean Mahoney said in a letter to Dr Cheema.
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