Pakistan and Uzbekistan have agreed to further enhance the existing ties between the two countries on the basis of mutual interest.

This was agreed during meeting between Minister for Education Rana Tanveer Hussain and Ambassador of Uzbekistan Aybek Arif Usmanov in Islamabad on Tuesday.

Rana Tanveer Hussain said the future is in Vocational Training of the population of Pakistan.

He said Pakistan and Uzbekistan, through National Vocational and Technical Training Commission ,should exchange teachers and students to learn from the expertise of each other.

The Ambassador informed the education minister that Uzbekistan would host the Second World Conference on Early Childhood Care and Education (WCECCE), co-organized with UNESCO, scheduled to be held from 14 to 16 next month in Uzbekistan.