Pakistan and Singapore on Thursday expressed the resolve to cooperate for expansion of knowledge industry in Pakistan. During a meeting with President of the National University of Singapore (NUS) Professor Tan Chorh Chuan, High Commissioner of Pakistan to Singapore Syed Hasan Javed said that Pakistani youth population of 54 percent under 20 years of age could be a bonanza for economic development.
He said that there was a 1,200 percent increase in higher education enrolment in Pakistan between 2000 and 2010. The high commissioner said that Pakistan has the largest number of O&A level students outside the United Kingdom. "Several Pakistani students established world records in O & A level examinations in mathematics, computer science, and English literature.
An Education City is being established in Karachi while Pakistani universities have produced more research papers over the past decade, than in the previous 50 years," he added. He said that several Pakistani doctors and engineers had established global records in excellence in medical surgery, dengue fever research, bio-technology, genetic engineering, computer science and applications, says a press release recieved here from Singapore.