Vice President Water Partnership of Bangladesh and Member Regional Council Dr. Khundkar Azhar-ul-Haq while meets with UAF Vice Chancellor Prof. Dr. Iqrar Ahmad Khan (SI)

Pakistan and Bangladesh can exchange mutual experiences regarding water use efficiency through their experts as both countries are facing similar challenges in this regard. Said by Vice President Water Partnership of Bangladesh and Member Regional Council Dr. Khundkar Azhar-ul-Haq while meeting with UAF Vice Chancellor Prof. Dr. Iqrar Ahmad Khan (SI) in his chamber on Monday Morning. Dr. Khundkar Azhar-ul-Haq said both countries witness alike problems of water due to illegitimate Indian involvement in the issue. He said his country was not producing cotton but after China it become 2nd largest cotton exporter of the world. He said the Bangladesh Scientists have developed a rice variety of having significant intervention of Vitamin-A aiming at keep the people safe from blindness. He expressed his willingness to make collaborative research with UAF scientists to jointly work on roses and diseases associated with flowers. Earlier, UAF Vice Chancellor Prof. Dr. Iqrar Ahmad Khan apprised the visiting scientist that UAF has a unique experience of dong international projects with various scientists and organizations of developing and developed world in which the other institutions are lacking adding that the visit of Dr. Khundkar Azhar-ul-Haq would certainly pave a way for collaboration and mutual faculty/student visits to share the experiences and steer their respective out of the crises. He emphasized Asian countries in general and of South Asia in particular to work together on climate change as it severely hit the people in the recent years. Prof. Dr. Allah Bakhsh Chairman Dept. of Irrigation and Drainage and other were also present in the meeting.