KARACHI, April 1: Adviser on Excise and Taxation M.A. Jalil has said that despite having enormous resources, the OIC countries still lag behind and economic development of all the OIC countries is not uniform or identical.

“There are wide gaps both in GDP as well as in the level of industrialisation”, he observed while speaking as chief guest at the concluding session of OIC workshop for training of trainers on entrepreneurship on Friday.

Some countries, Jalil said, are relatively rich and more developed, whereas some, particularly African-based Muslim countries, are less developed. This could be judged from the fact that as many as 22 Muslim countries fall within the definition of least developed countries, he said.—APP