'Pakistan must equip youth with latest technologies'.

FAISALABAD -- Faisalabad Chamber of Commerce and Industry (FCCI's) standing Committee on R and D Chairman Engineer Ahmad Hassan said on Tuesday that exponential growth expected in coming decades in 14 major technologies had necessitated Pakistan like countries to equip its youth in these

sectors to get its due share from the emerging opportunities in addition to enhancing foreign remittances.

Addressing a meeting of business community here, he said that world's future was directly linked with 14 technologies including mobile connected devices, gene editing, digital wallets, block chain, cloud computing, gene sequencing, internet of things, artificial intelligence, living therapies, battery technology, reusable rockets, robotics, autonomous mobility and 3D printing.

Underlining the socio-economic impact of these technologies, he said international investment companies which were framing their long term strategies had already...