A meeting of the CPA Asia Regional Branch Secretaries took place at the Old Assembly Building in Karachi on 4 February 2026 to deliberate the draft Parliamentary Exchange Programme and map next steps for regional collaboration.<\/p>\n
The proceedings were led by the host Secretary of the Sindh Assembly, Mr. G.M. Umar Farooq<\/strong>, who guided discussions on programme scope and objectives.<\/p>\n The Pakistani delegation was headed by the Special Secretary and CPA Asia Branch Secretary, Mr. Syed Shamoon Ashraf Hashmi<\/strong>, and representatives from the parliamentary secretariats of Pakistan, Malaysia and the Maldives attended the meeting to share perspectives and priorities.<\/p>\n Participants agreed to finalise a framework for a short term exchange programme ranging from five to seven days, designed to enhance practical learning and staff exposure across legislatures. Delegates described the Parliamentary Exchange as a key step toward institutional capacity building, strengthening parliamentary linkages and enhancing democratic competencies within the region.<\/p>\n With consensus on the programme structure, officials signalled intent to move forward on detailed arrangements and timelines so the exchange can support parliamentary development across CPA Asia member secretariats.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Delegates from Pakistan, Malaysia and the Maldives agree on a five to seven day Parliamentary Exchange at Sindh Assembly to boost institutional capacity.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":16736,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[94],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16737","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\/16737","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=16737"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.peakpoint.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16737\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.peakpoint.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/16736"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.peakpoint.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16737"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.peakpoint.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16737"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.peakpoint.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16737"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}