2nd session of IPU regional seminar on SDGs begins.

ISLAMABAD -- The second session of the 'Third Inter-Parliamentary Union (IPU) Regional Seminar on Achieving Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) for Parliaments of Asia-Pacific' began here Wednesday.

Convenor National Assembly Task Force on SDGs Romina Khurshid Alam delivered her keynote speech and

apprised the participants on Parliamentary mechanism and practices to institutionalise the SDGs.

She shared the practices of the Parliamentary Task Force to support the implementation of the SDGs.

Romina informed the delegates that the 15th National Assembly of Pakistan has successfully constituted the 'National Parliamentary Taskforce on SDGs', comprising 50 cross-party Members of the National Assembly.

Members have voluntarily joined the Parliamentary Task Force in order to create a joint ownership of the National Assembly...