{"id":11700,"date":"2025-09-25T14:14:07","date_gmt":"2025-09-25T14:14:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.peakpoint.pk\/en\/2025\/09\/25\/advancing-pakistan-kuwait-cooperation-research\/"},"modified":"2025-09-25T14:14:07","modified_gmt":"2025-09-25T14:14:07","slug":"advancing-pakistan-kuwait-cooperation-research","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.peakpoint.pk\/en\/2025\/09\/25\/advancing-pakistan-kuwait-cooperation-research\/","title":{"rendered":"Advancing Pakistan Kuwait cooperation through research"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On September 25, 2025 the Institute of Strategic Studies Islamabad (ISSI) signed a Memorandum of Understanding with Kuwait\u2019s Reconnaissance Research Centre (RRC) in an online ceremony that brought together senior officials from both organisations. The MoU was signed by <strong>Ambassador Sohail Mahmood<\/strong>, Director General of ISSI, and <strong>Mr Abdulaziz M. Al-Anjeri<\/strong>, Founder and CEO of RRC, with Pakistan\u2019s Ambassador to Kuwait <strong>Dr Zafar Iqbal<\/strong> and <strong>Ms Amina Khan<\/strong>, Director of the Centre for Afghanistan, Middle East and Africa (CAMEA) at ISSI, in attendance.<\/p>\n<p>Ambassador Sohail Mahmood highlighted the long-standing historical and diplomatic ties between Pakistan and Kuwait and said the agreement will pave the way for deeper research and academic collaboration. He commended RRC\u2019s leadership for promoting dialogue in the Gulf region, thanked Ambassador Dr Zafar Iqbal for his role in facilitating the institutional link, and underlined ISSI\u2019s commitment to turning this partnership into practical outcomes that strengthen Pakistan Kuwait cooperation.<\/p>\n<p>Mr Abdulaziz Al-Anjeri called the MoU a significant milestone that enables a concrete plan of action. He emphasised a practical, results-oriented approach and announced RRC\u2019s intention to establish a dedicated unit to follow up on the MoU and to concentrate on Kuwait-Pakistan cooperation and wider regional issues. Mr Al-Anjeri also appreciated the facilitation provided by Pakistan\u2019s embassy in Kuwait in bringing the two think-tanks together.<\/p>\n<p>The core elements of the MoU focus on the exchange of officials and experts for research, field studies and professional training, along with the sharing of views and experience in areas of common interest. Joint scientific research, collaborative events and exchange of publications are also included in the agreed framework, creating avenues for sustained engagement between Pakistani and Kuwaiti researchers.<\/p>\n<p>For Pakistani scholars and policy analysts the agreement opens opportunities for enhanced people-to-people links, capacity building and collaborative projects addressing regional challenges. Both institutions have committed to convert the MoU into actionable programmes, signalling a new phase of academic and policy cooperation aimed at producing practical results and deeper connections between Islamabad and Kuwait City.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ISSI and Kuwait&#8217;s RRC sign MoU to advance Pakistan Kuwait cooperation with joint research, expert exchanges and training for stronger academic ties.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":11699,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[94],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11700","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-pakistan"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.peakpoint.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11700","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.peakpoint.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.peakpoint.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.peakpoint.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.peakpoint.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11700"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.peakpoint.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11700\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.peakpoint.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11699"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.peakpoint.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11700"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.peakpoint.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11700"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.peakpoint.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11700"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}