COMSATS inaugurates Int'l center for Training and Development.

ISLAMABAD -- COMSATS inaugurated a state-of-the-art International Centre for Training and Development (ICTD) in a ceremony held on Monday with an aim to provide training facility to scientific community in the country for utilizing their potential toward country's development.

The International Centre for Training and Development (ICTD) was inaugurated at COMSATS Secretariat.

The Centre has been established with an aim to provide trainings by foreign experts in areas including climate change, intellectual property rights, higher education and leadership and energy policy.

The Centre has been jointly established by COMSATS and American Institute of Pakistan Studies (AIPS) under an agreement signed between the two organizations in January 2018.

Speaking at the ceremony, Executive Director, COMSATS, Dr S M Junaid Zaidi emphasized the need for human resource development and capacity building of scientific community in the developing countries to bring them at par with the developed ones.

He was of the view that lack of training and leadership causes setbacks in all sectors. Dr Zaidi said that leadership and decision-making skills could be inculcated in the youth through expert trainings which can help achieve sustainable development in the South.

President of AIPS, Dr Farhat Haq, in her...

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