“This is not possible without Pakistan’s support to the international community and we will do all that we can to help the Afghan reconciliation process,” he said while addressing the three-day 20th Sustainable Development Conference (SDC) organised here by the Sustainable Development Policy Institute (SDPI). Prime Minister’s Adviser on Finance Dr Miftah Ismail said that SMEs should be a local economic venture, with focus on industrial zones as facilitators with a national development innovations as key to economic development. He said that the industrial zones, therefore, were the backbone of economic development under CPEC. However, from 2000-2015, there was a decline in Pakistan’s growth at 4 to 4.5%. Pranav Adhikari from Nepal linked to gender equality and empowerment with the achievement of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).

Source: Pakistan Today December 05, 2017 19:18 UTC