TEHRAN – Pakistan’s Federal Minister for Education and Professional Training, Khalid Maqbool Siddiqui, has highlighted the importance of bilateral ties between Iran and Pakistan, noting that Islamabad is committed to boosting scientific and technological diplomacy with Tehran.
The Pakistani official met with Minister of Science, Research and Technology, Hossein Simaei-Sarraf, on Tuesday on the sidelines of the sixth Meeting of Science Ministers of the Economic Cooperation Organization (ECO) in Islamabad on Tuesday.
During the assembly, the 2 sides acknowledged the rising momentum in bilateral academic cooperation and reaffirmed their willpower to increase institutional partnerships for the mutual profit of scholars, researchers, and tutorial communities, IRNA reported.
Their discussions primarily targeted on enhancing cooperation in trainer schooling, curriculum growth, digital schooling, synthetic intelligence, academic expertise, technical and vocational schooling, joint analysis initiatives, and exchanging professors and college students.
They additionally expressed satisfaction over the profitable implementation of present Memoranda of Understanding (MOUs) between Pakistani and Iranian larger schooling establishments, together with the National University of Modern Languages (NUML). They additionally inspired related collaborations amongst different universities and analysis organizations.
Promoting joint analysis tasks, conducting tutorial conferences, developing innovation partnerships, and granting scholarship alternatives to strengthen tutorial ties and facilitate the trade of data and experience had been amongst different mentioned points.
Siddiqui highlighted that Pakistan is committed to implementing selections made on schooling throughout the joint fee with Iran, and transferring the shared imaginative and prescient of each international locations into significant sensible outcomes.
He famous that longstanding brotherly relations between Iran and Pakistan act as a key issue for sustained institutional interplay in addressing shared academic challenges and enhancing scientific growth.
For his half, Simaei-Sarraf stated that increasing cooperation between the upper schooling and scientific establishments of the 2 international locations would additional deepen relations and contribute to regional growth by innovation, analysis, and tutorial collaboration.
The two sides agreed to preserve shut coordination between their respective ministries and scientific-technological establishments, and to discover new avenues of cooperation aimed toward strengthening public ties, enhancing tutorial collaboration, and fostering sustainable growth by schooling, science, and analysis.
The science minister was scheduled to attend the Board of Trustees assembly of the ECO Science Foundation and ship a keynote speech on the sixth ECO ministerial assembly.
The election of the following president of the ECO Science Foundation is additionally on the agenda. The basis is presently headed by Komeil Tayyebi from Iran.
As a part of his three-day go to, Simaei-Sarraf will even meet with Pakistan’s minister of science and expertise and the chairman of the Higher Education Commission (HEC), go to a number of main universities in Islamabad, tour the ECO Science Foundation, and maintain discussions with professors of the Persian language.
Joint scientific working group
On the sidelines of the seventh Turkey Educational Technologies Summit (often known as TETZ 2026), which was held in Istanbul from June 26 to 28, the Pakistani Minister of State for the Ministry of Federal Education and Professional Training, Wajiha Qamar, met with Simaei-Sarraf, proposing that the 2 international locations set up a joint scientific working group.
Iran’s current achievements within the worldwide area are inspiring for a lot of international locations, together with Pakistan, ISNA quoted Qamar as saying.
Highlighting the emotional, non secular, historic, and cultural ties between the 2 nations, the official stated, “Pakistan will stand by Iran in its initiatives and actions, and the relations between Tehran and Islamabad will remain strong and stable based on these commonalities.”
The two sides want to promote collaboration to absolutely make the most of the respective capacities of one another, she added.
The deep linguistic, spiritual, and civilizational ties between the 2 international locations will contribute to the event of cooperation, the official additional famous.
Referring to the scientific and academic accomplishments of Iran, Qamar stated Pakistan can profit from Iran’s beneficial experience in expertise coaching, agriculture, development, and manufacturing sectors.
For his half, Simaei-Sarraf famous that present scientific, tutorial, and technological collaborations between Iran and Pakistan are usually not proportionate to the capacities of each events.
The official additionally confused the necessity to set up Persian and Urdu language chairs in reciprocal international locations.
Highlighting the scientific capabilities of Sistan-Baluchestan University, the science minister introduced the college’s readiness to entice Pakistani college students.
On the sidelines of the forty third Session of the United Nations Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) General Conference, held in Samarkand, Uzbekistan, from October 30 to November 13, 2024, Simaei-Sarraf met with the Pakistani Minister of State for the Ministry of Federal Education, Wajiha Qamar.
During the assembly, the 2 sides underlined cultural, civilizational ties between the 2 international locations and known as for the enlargement of scientific, tutorial, and academic cooperation.
The Pakistani minister lauded Iran’s achievements in expertise and digital transformation.
For his half, Simaei-Sarraf voiced the nation’s readiness to share scientific and technological experience with Pakistan.
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