04/01/2026
Can someone please explain this scam to me? I was told that if I took admission at ICCBS, I would receive 70000 scholarship. What they forgot to mention was that I would be paying 132000 PKR per semester in fees, 6000 or 10000 per month for hostel, 7,000 PKR per month for mess and endless miscellaneous that pop up on and off. So tell me what exactly is this scholarship for? Moral support? (M.phil walon ka Allah Hafiz, I don't understand why you even enrolled)
An average PhD student here is 26–28 years old. In our society, men at this age are expected to support their parents and family, not beg for pocket money. How exactly is someone supposed to support their family and survive a PhD when they are financially strangled? And after sacrificing 4–5 years of their life, they’ll be 32 or 33, mentally destroyed, exhausted, and still unsure whether they’ll even have a future or a job.
Let’s be honest, this system does not just test intelligence, it crushes mental health. The pressure isn’t only academic, it comes from society, family, relatives, friends, and parents who are desperately hoping that one day their son will finally be able to help them. I come from a lower middle class family, and by this age, I am supposed to be a support and not a liability. Instead, I will graduate with a PhD and still be financially irrelevant and unemployable.
I want real answers from current PhD students who are already suffering under this stress: how are you managing this mess? Or are you just surviving quietly?
And to His Excellency, the Director of the Institute: please stop this nonsense obsession with numbers. Forget about stuffing labs and hostels with students like cattle. Just increase the scholarship to the 70000 you announced 10 months ago. If you cannot even pay the 150 already enrolled PhD students, what genius idea was it to enroll 200 more? You promised increment in scholarship, failed to deliver. You all including Prof. Atta mentioning 70000 scholarship everywhere, for the record of the world, till January 2026, ICCBS students have NOT received the increased scholarship they had announced back in April 2025.
If you don’t have money for basic necessities, neither in labs, nor in the hostel, stop recruiting. There have been plenty of complaints related to lack of basic facilities at hostel launched through official channels, yet nothing resolved. Stop collecting students when you can’t support them with their future. Stop producing frustration, anxiety, and broken people. The institute is already drowning in problems created by reckless over admission, students are suffocating due to poor facilities, and yet your only focus is to inflate numbers.
Just stop. Please. We demand basic facilities, not luxuries.
