ISLAMABAD, March 6: Pakistan and Kazakhstan have initiated a scientific cooperation programme of training and research to benefit from each other’s expertise in science and technology.

There are 27 projects under the bilateral programme which envisages the training of Pakistani scientists in Kazakh-stan in important areas of science and technology in which Kazakhstan has excelled, official sources said on Wednesday.

Pakistan will contribute to training and research in areas of scientific development in which it has exceptional expertise, the sources said.

They said that the projects were the outcome of efforts by the science and technology ministry and the Organization of Islamic Conference on Scientific and Technological Cooperation (Comstech). Most of the projects are under process.—APP