Pakistan and US have agreed to undertake 18 projects at a cost of $3 million in various fields of science and technology following the first meeting of Pakistan-US Joint Committee on Science and Technology in Islamabad.
A press release issued here said that the projects would be launched in the field of education, human resource development, environment, medicine, advanced computing, metrology, standards, quality control and water resources with the aim to establish linkages between centres of scientific excellence in both the countries.
The meeting jointly chaired by Dr Lee Morin, Deputy Assistant Secretary for Health, Space and Science, US State Department and Engr. Shehryar Khan, Joint Technological Adviser, Science and Technology Ministry, also discussed ways to move forward Pak-US agreement on science and technology signed on June 25, 2003.
The press release said that both the countries agreed to enhance co-operation following the February 2002 Camp David meeting between President Pervez Musharraf and President George W. Bush and subsequently through June 2003 agreement they established a legal framework to expand US-Pakistan co-operation for peaceful purposes between public and private entities from the US and Pakistani scientific communities.
It also said that early efforts by Higher Education Commission Chairman Dr Attaur Rehman and Dr Normen Neuteiter, the then science adviser to US Secretary of State Colin Powell, laid the foundation for the co-operation programme.
Meanwhile, the US delegation heading the two-day talks between both the countries also met Science and Technology Minister Chaudhry Nouraiz Shakoor to discuss mutual co-operation in science and technology.
The two sides emphasised the importance of S&T co-operation between both the countries in the backdrop of commitment to work together for peaceful use of science and technology that was reiterated at the highest level during the recent meeting between President Bush and President Musharraf in US.-PR
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