Pakistan and Oman are enjoying excellent bilateral ties and we should get benefit from each others experiences in agriculture, academia, research and other areas of mutual concerns, said University of Agriculture Faisalabad Vice Chancellor Prof Dr Asif Tanveer.

He was talking at a gift-receiving ceremony from Oman as the Sultan of Oman has gifted a complete 5 volume set of mango Encyclopedia to the University of Agriculture Faisalabad for the students, researchers and teaching community. He thanked the Sultan of Oman for the valuable gift that will help the campus community get the updated knowledge about the mangoes. He said that the mangoes encyclopedia would be kept at the Main Library where tens of thousands of students were used to visit every month. He said around 30 per cent of Omanis originate from Pakistan’s province of Balochistan. These people had settled in Oman after migrating from Balochistan 100 years ago. He added that a joint working group must be constituted to further boost up ties between the two countries.