KARACHI, Feb 10: Two Pakistani students were named prize-winners in an essay competition on ‘Sustainable Development in Asia and the Pacific’.

Muniba Mahmud and Saba Majeed, both students of the Institute of Business Administration, Karachi, were among the 26 students from 16 member states of ADB honoured in the competition open to university students aged 18 to 29 years from Asia and the Pacific.

The competition was sponsored by ADB and ROAD, a network of Japanese university students concerned about development issues, through ADB’s Japan Special Fund, financed by the Government of Japan.

It is part of a series of educational events that will precede ADB’s 40th Annual Meeting to be held in Kyoto, Japan, on May 6and 7.

A three-member independent jury reviewed each of more than 600 essays submitted in the competition.

All 26 winners are being invited to participate in a week-long programme culminating in the Youth Forum in Kyoto on March 17. The forum will provide winning essayists with the opportunity to deliberate upon sustainable development issues.