Amir Khan named PSCF coordinator

The Executive Committee of Pak-Saudi Cooperation Forum (PSCF) appointed Amir Muhammad Khan as chief coordinator for Saudi Arabia. Secretary-General of the Forum Abubakar Siddique told reporters in Islamabad that the forum led by Pakistan's former Information Minister Muhammad Ali Durrani has decided to extend its membership campaign to enroll prominent personalities of Pakistan and Saudi Arabia as its members and increase activities in all major cities of Pakistan and Saudi Arabia for boosting relations between the two countries.
The PSCF is an independent non-political organization working for the improvement of relations between Pakistan and Saudi Arabia. The prime objective of the forum is to enhance Pak-Saudi economic and cultural ties along with strengthening people-to-people contacts. The forum draws its support from people in Pakistan and Saudi Arabia.
It aims to set up information and coordination centers, organize conferences and seminars in collaboration with the private and public-sector organizations in Pakistan and Saudi Arabia.
To achieve its objectives of boosting people-to-people contact, the forum aims to hold diverse programs and formulate policies to further strengthen efforts for improving the required level of cooperation between the public and private sectors of the two countries.
A state-of-the-art information and coordination center would be established to provide sufficient information about the two countries. The center will offer counseling and assistance in the fields of investment, trade and cultural exchange and the export of qualified workers.
The forum will assist and encourage researchers and students financially for working in the area of Pak-Saudi cooperation. To promote bilateral cooperation and provide sufficient information to mediapersons, the forum will offer training courses. Campaigns will be launched aimed at countering covert efforts aimed at harming the friendly relationship. A monthly bulletin will be issued in Arabic, Urdu and English languages covering the forum's activities and developments in bilateral relations between Pakistan and Saudi Arabia.
The forum plans to organize conferences and seminars to discuss prospects of cooperation between the two countries and will arrange meetings between different groups of businessmen, technicians, journalists, researchers, intellectuals and representatives of chambers of commerce and unions.
Pak-Saudi friendship exhibitions will also be held aimed at bringing the people of the two countries closer.