Keen: Country to develop science sector

Minister Zahid Hamid says Pakistan is interested in developing its science and technology sector.

ISLAMABAD: Federal Minister for Science and Technology Zahid Hamid on Thursday said Pakistan is interested to develop its science and technology sector and playing an active role in field internationally. In a meeting with the executive director of the World Academy of Science based in Italy, Prof Romain Murenzi, he said they are working for the science diplomacy and under the South-South cooperation, said a news release issued here on Thursday. They discussed areas of mutual interest particularly in the field of Science and Technology in the meeting. Murenzi thanked the minister for the role played by Pakistan in the science and technology sector. “Through science diplomacy the soft image of Pakistan would be projected in the world”, he added.

Published in The Express Tribune, May 2^nd, 2014.

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