Pakistan's Ambassador to the Kingdom Khan Hasham Bin Saddique met with Haitham A. Al-Ohali, vice minister of communications and information technology, at his office in Riyadh on Tuesday.
They discussed relations between the two countries. The talks especially focused bilateral cooperation in the fields of communication and information technology.
The ambassador highlighted the potential for cooperation in the IT field as Pakistan has been making rapid progress under China-Pakistan Economic Corridor and Saudi Arabia is implementing its Vision 2030 focusing on its main themes of digitization and artificial intelligence.
Haitham, while agreeing to the ambassador’s assessment, stressed the need for the two countries to identify and work closely on possible avenues of cooperation in the field of IT and digitization.
He also talked about the various ICT initiatives under way in the Kingdom. They also discussed cooperation at multilateral forums.