04/08/2026
Strengthening Pakistan–Spain Partnership through Knowledge, Innovation, and Sustainable Development 🇵🇰🇪🇸
H.E. Carlos Aragon, Ambassador of Spain called on Federal Minister Prof. Ahsan Iqbal. Both sides discussed expanding bilateral cooperation in higher education, agriculture, human development, sports, and cultural exchange.
Key Discussion Points
✔️Strengthening Pakistan–Spain bilateral cooperation in higher education, agriculture, sports, human development, and cultural exchange.
✔️Expanding academic collaboration through a proposed MoU between the University of Narowal and the Universidad de Granada.
✔️Promoting joint research, faculty and student exchanges, and institutional partnerships between universities.
✔️Highlighting the University of Narowal's Al-Andalus-inspired architecture as a reflection of the shared cultural heritage between Pakistan and Spain.
✔️Inviting the Spanish Ambassador to visit Kartarpur Sahib to promote interfaith harmony, cultural understanding, and religious tourism.
✔️Seeking Spanish cooperation in olive cultivation, agribusiness, value addition, and agricultural technology, particularly in Balochistan, the merged districts of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, and the Potohar region.
✔️Emphasizing the expansion of Pakistan's olive industry to strengthen food security and reduce dependence on imported palm oil.
✔️Proposed collaboration with Spain and UNICEF to host the next International Conference on Early Childhood Development in Pakistan.
✔️Extended an invitation to Her Majesty Queen Letizia of Spain to attend the conference.
Ambassador Carlos Aragon appreciated Pakistan's hospitality and reaffirmed Spain's interest in deepening bilateral engagement.
The meeting concluded with both sides reaffirming their commitment to advancing a forward-looking partnership driven by knowledge, innovation, sustainable development, and stronger people-to-people ties.