News @ 3 - 12th March 2018

ISLAMABAD: Minister for Interior, Ahsan Iqbal has said Pakistan was quite a peaceful and rapidly developing country against the murky picture being portrayed by some international media outlets.

Addressing the inauguration ceremony of a five-day 10th International Scientific School here, the minister urged foreign delegates to tell the people in their respective countries about real peaceful picture of Pakistan.

He said science and technology were the key drivers for development, because technological and scientific revolutions underpin economic advances, improvements in health systems, education and infrastructure.

It is a fact that to promote technological advances, developing countries should invest in quality education for the youth, as well as continuous skills training for researchers and scientists, and should ensure that knowledge is shared as widely as possible across society.

He said development of physics was a collaborative enterprise and this enterprise was the reason of many modern inventions.

“Economic growth of advanced economies depends in large part on a strong infrastructure for science and technology (S&T), an infrastructure that can lead to the development of new industries, improved competitiveness of existing industries, and the creation of new jobs opportunities,” he added.