President stresses need for bilateral relationship with Italy

President Dr Arif Alvi stressed a bilateral relationship with Italy in the fields of defence, agriculture, animal husbandry and information technology.

He was talking to Pakistan’s Ambassador-designate to Italy, Ali Javed, at the Aiwan-e-Sadr on Monday.

The president appreciated the idea of establishing manufacturing units by Pakistani diasporas in the industrial-free zone of Italy for manufacturing and exporting Pakistani goods and products in Italy and rest of the Europe. He said the avenues for exports of human intellect, knowledge and skills online to Italy by our IT professionals and related fields needed to be explored. This way, he said, the human resource would be retained in Pakistan whereas their skills and knowledge could be shared.

Dr Alvi said the country needed a skilled workforce for industrial, agricultural and manufacturing development. He added that the ambassador and the entire ancillary staff in Italy should focus their energy on resolving the issues and problems faced by the Pakistani diasporas in Italy and provide them with the support, and counselling services online and at their doorsteps.

Published in The Express Tribune, December 20^th, 2022.