Partnership: Way revealed to win Japan grant

Japanese Counselor said Urdu was being taught at 3 varsities in Japan.

MULTAN: Japanese Counselor to Pakistan, Toshikazu Isomura, has urged industrialists to collaborate with Pakistan’s government for getting grants from Japan for various projects in South Punjab. “Japan is extending cooperation for various projects in Pakistan and its companies have been trading with their counterparts here for long,” he said, while exchanging views with a group of industrialists at a dinner held at Multan Chamber of Commerce and Industry. The counselor said that their government was already working on various projects in Pakistan and informed that Urdu was being taught at 3 varsities in Japan. Speaking in impressive Urdu, he revealed that he had learnt Urdu in three years and added that he had been coming to Pakistan since 1985 for different assignments. Earlier, briefing the envoy, former president MCCI, Khawaja Jalaluddin Romi said that the city needs a new health facility for which Japan could donate funds.

Published in The Express Tribune, January 17^th, 2014.

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