Pakistan to share experience in fields of social protection & poverty alleviation, Textile, diary & milk products under the South- South Cooperation: Minister Khusro Bakhtyar
Islamabad: December 17, 2020

Dr. Bandar Hajjar, President of Islamic Development Bank appreciates the great potential of knowledge and expertise available in Pakistan* H.E. Dr. Bandar Hajjar, President of IsDB Group and H.E. Makhdum Khusro Bakhtyar, Minister for Economic Affairs, Government of Pakistan co-chaired online launch of the report on “Mapping Pakistan’s Resource Centres”. This report focuses on four key sectors of the economy (1) Agriculture (2) Agro-based industry (3) Pharmaceutical Industry and (4) Information Communication Technology. 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. In his welcoming remarks, Makhdum Khusro Bakhtyar, Minister for Economic Affairs appreciated the IsDB’s support in socio-economic development of Pakistan and thanked IsDB and Pakistani institutions for undertaking the mapping exercise. He underlined the importance of this report by saying that this will help the developing member countries to benefit from Pakistan’s experience through knowledge sharing. Dr. Bandar Hajjar, the President of IsDB Group, 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 USD to help the member countries for vaccine procurement. The Minister for Economic Affairs said that producing the report on the “Mapping of Pakistan’ Resource Centers” is an important milestone to highlight the level of development in four key sectors of the economy i.e. Agriculture, Agro-based Industries, pharmaceuticals and Information & Communication Technologies. Additionally, Pakistan has great experience to share in social protection and poverty alleviation, Textile and related industries and diary & milk products under the South- South Cooperation. The Minister for Economic Affairs 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.