In his address to the business community of Hyderabad, American Consul General Brian Heath announced that the US might look into establishing an IT park in Sindh’s second largest urban centre.

He was quoted in a press statement released by the Hyderabad Chamber of Commerce and Industry that the “US investors are interested in investing in Pakistan and they are also watching the country’s situation”.

An IT park is one potential area for investment.

His address was part of a tour in Sindh, during which he also met 20 professors and students at the US-Pakistan Centre for Advanced Studies in Water at Jamshoro’s Mehran University of Engineering and Technology (MUET), who are about to head to the US for a semester-long exchange programme.

The American diplomat expresses his pride at the fact that many women scientists were part of the programme.

The exchange programme is part of an agreement that sees 250 faculty and students of MUET go to the University of Utah for a semester.

More such partnerships are being planned, including an energy initiative involving the University of Engineering and Technology (UET) and the National University of Science and Technology. The US has also granted $20 million to the UET Peshawar for research in the country’s energy sector.