LAHORE; Oct 27: Pakistan needs to develop its educational system to produce bright and talented engineers and scientists with innovative ideas.

This was stated by Prof Riazuddin, director of the National Centre for Physics, Quaid-i-Azam University, lslamabad, here on Friday.

He was speaking at the inaugural session of a five-day scientific conference on “International school on surfaces, thin films, nano structures and applications” jointly organised by the COMSATS Institute of Information Technology (CIIT) and the Islamic Scientific, Educational, Social, Cultural Organisation (ISESCO) in collaboration with the Higher Education Commission, COMSTECH, NESCOM and different other organisations at CIIT.

Prof Riaz said there was a great need to produce new generations of researchers to expand the frontiers of knowledge to further human beings’ social, economic and scientific insight. Saying that science could not flourish in isolation, he stressed that scientists must try to become the part of an international environment.

CIIT director Prof Dr Shaukat Ali Hayat, convener of the conference Prof Arshad Bhatti and Prof Dr John H Weaver from the US also spoke on the occasion.

It is learnt that experts from the USA, UK, Germany, China, Sweden, Austria, Egypt, Turkey, Pakistan and other countries will deliver over 50 lectures on fundamentals and applications of various aspects of the subject to explore new avenues during 10 scientfic sessions of the conference. — Reporter