Ahsan for enhanced education co-operation with Turkey
By Bushra Makhdoom

ISLAMABAD—Federal Minister for Education, Ahsan Iqbal has said that there is dire need of wider co-operation in the field of education between Pakistan and Turkey.
Federal Minister expressed these views while talking to the Turkish Ambassador to Pakistan Engin Soysal here on Thursday. The two countries can benefit a lot in educational field from their mutual experience, the minister added.
Ahsan Iqbal said that both the brotherly countries should join hands for more enhanced education co-operation.
He urged the need for more students teachers exchange program between the Universities of Pakistan and Turkey. This exchange of program can give a lot of benefits to our students, he opined. He also proposed to initiate the scheme of “Sister Universities” and “Sister Schools, Colleges” for enhanced mutual educational co-operation between Pakistan and Turkey.
The Turkish Ambassador highly appreciated these valuable suggestions and said that the proposed exchange programs are workable and useful as well.
The matters relating to activation of Economic Cooperation Organization (ECO) also came under discussion. He said that such exchange programme could give a lot of benefits to students of the two countries by sharing one another’s experiences and learning about their culture. Ahsan Iqbal also proposed to initiate the scheme of ‘Sister universities and ‘Sister Schools’, Colleges’ for enhanced mutual educational cooperation between Pakistan and Turkey.