The 2005 Pakistan earthquake was centered in Azad Kashmir , near the city of Muzaffarabad , affecting a lot of areas of Azad Kashmir and North-West Frontier Province regions of Pakistan . In the International response to the 2005 Kashmir earthquake many countries , international organizations and non-governmental organizations offered relief aid to the affected regions . Cuba also offered 1000 scholarships in Medicine for Pakistani students under the title of General and Comprehensive Medicine ( Equal to MBBS of Pakistan ) . The Project was handed over to Higher Education Commission of Pakistan . The first batch of the approximately 384 students reached from Pakistan to Cuba in the month of February 2007 which were sent to the Faculty of Medicine '' ' Máximo Santiago Haza J4 ' '' Jaguey Grande , Matanzas Province . A 2nd Batch of more than 600 students reached from Pakistan to Cuba in May 2008 . The Batch 2 students were sent to two different schools '' ' Jose Maria Agurrie T9 ' '' and '' ' Antonio Ramon Horta AG7 ' '' in the same municipality Jaguey Grande . All these Faculties are under the Project The New Program For The Formation of Doctors ( Nuevo Programa de Formación de Médicos Latinoamericanos ) . Some other Faculties for medical studies under the same Project are also located in the same municipality for the students of People 's Republic of China , Mexico , Peru , Ecuador , Bolivia , Paraguay , Guatemala and the Caribbean Islands . All the Pakistanis students who passed 2 years in this Campus are presently studying in University of Medical Sciences , Cienfuegos
2005 Pakistan earthquake
2005 Kashmir earthquake
José María Aguirre T9