Shehryar lauds young researchers

Emphasizes on utilizing forums such as MSF to help promote evidence-based governance

ISLAMABAD: Highlighting the importance of research and knowledge creation for national progress, State Minister Shehryar Afridi encouraged young scholars to carry out meaningful, policy-oriented research to solve the issues and challenges Pakistan and the world today is faced with. He was speaking at the concluding ceremony of Maritime Summer School 2019 (MSS19) - a five-day workshop organised for young scholars, researchers, practitioners as well as legislators hailing from different areas of the country in conducting research studies in the maritime domain of Pakistan – by Maritime Study Forum (MSF). Afridi, in his keynote speech, lauded the efforts of MSF – a network of institutional and individual researchers and practitioners dedicated to promoting maritime-related research and policy discourse in the country – emphasizing on utilizing such forums to help promote evidence-based good governance.  

Published in The Express Tribune, August 15^th, 2019.