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ISLAMABAD
Appreciating the support of Islamic Development Bank (IDB) in socio-economic development of Pakistan, Minister for Economic Affairs Makhdoom Khusro Bakhtiar has said that Pakistan will share experience in fields of social protection and poverty alleviation, textile, and dairy and milk products under the South-South Cooperation.
He said this during the online launch of the report on ‘Mapping Pakistan’s Resource Centres,’ co-chaired by him and President IDB Dr Bandar Hajjar in Islamabad on Thursday.
The minister said that producing the report on the ‘Mapping of Pakistan’ Resource Centres’ is an important milestone to highlight the level of development in four key sectors of the economy, including agriculture, agro-based industries, pharmaceuticals and information and communication technologies.
He underlined the importance of the report by saying that this will help the developing member countries to benefit from Pakistan’s experience through knowledge sharing.
President IsDB Group, Dr Bandar Hajjar appreciated the great potential of knowledge and expertise available in Pakistan and cherished that other member countries will benefit from this publication.
He also informed that IsDB has an ongoing support to mitigate Covid-19 impacts and has further allocated $2.5 billion to help the member countries for vaccine procurement.
The minister and president IsDB expressed their readiness to cooperate with each other and to involve the selected Resource Centers in Reverse Linkage projects for the betterment of Islamic Ummah. The event was virtually attended by all field offices of IsDB in the member countries and other experts.
It is pertinent to mention here that the profiles of sixteen Pakistani institutions– referred as Resource Centres – that have excellence in the respective field and developed reliable technologies have been published which can be shared by other member countries.
