ISLAMABAD: Mr Robert McNamara, President of the World Bank group, has said that the bank will do whatever it can to support development efforts of Pakistan. Before his departure for London this morning [Nov 14], at the end of his four-day visit to Pakistan, the World Bank chief said at the airport that he was greatly impressed by what he saw during his visit to the country.
He said Pakistan was a country with tremendous potential. He said that from the discussions which he’d held here about Pakistan’s future economic plans he was convinced of the appropriateness of its development strategy. Mr McNamara said the priorities seemed to be absolutely right although the goals being aimed at were somewhat ambitious. The realisation of these goals, he commented, would require tremendous effort of domestic resource mobilisation. He expressed the confidence that given … the required political will these objectives were not impossible [to achieve].
The World Bank President and the members of his team were seen off at the airport by the Federal Finance Minister, Rana Mohammad Hanif … , senior Government officials and representatives of the World Bank group in Pakistan. — News agencies.
Published in Dawn, November 15th, 2026
