ISLAMABAD: President Dr Arif Alvi underlined need to bring a substantial increase to quantum of bilateral trade between Pakistan and Ireland to realise full potential of bilateral trade.

Talking to Pakistan’s Ambassador-designate to Ireland Aisha Farooqui here, President said that there were immense opportunities for information technology-skilled youth and start-ups to secure online jobs in Ireland as more and more IT companies in Europe were shifting their headquarters to Ireland, which had been termed ‘Silicon Valley of Europe’.

He said increasing level of bilateral engagements, catalysing flow of investment to Pakistan, creating online job opportunity for IT skilled youth of Pakistan, increasing parliamentary exchanges, cementing people to people to contacts and seeking better cooperation in agriculture and livestock will be game changer. He said that there was a need to sensitise international community, particularly United Nations and its human rights machinery to take cognisance of rapidly deteriorating situation of Islamophobia in India and hold India accountable for its failure in ensuring security and well-being of its Muslim citizens.

Pakistan should focus on becoming an active partner in Quantum Computing research programmes, he added. Higher education is an important area of bilateral cooperation and advised ambassador-designate to make efforts to enhance cooperation in technical education and Irish scholarships for Pakistani students to study in Irish universities.

Published in The Daily National Courier, November, 01 2022

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