Pakistan's Vision 2025 Shaped Along Malaysian Development Model - Envoy

KUALA LUMPUR, Aug 14 (Bernama) -- Pakistan has taken a leaf from Malaysia in drafting its newly-launched Vision 2025 initiative to make the country economically strong and prosperous. Pakistan High Commissioner to Malaysia Syed Hassan Raza said Malaysia's Government Transformation Programme (GTP) and good governance were taken into consideration when Pakistan worked out the initiative. He said the most important aspect of Malaysia's national transformation model, which was aimed at building the government into an efficient and people-centric institution, had been envisaged in his country's plan and closely observed towards achieving the developed-country stage. Syed Hassan spoke to reporters at a flag-raising ceremony to mark Pakistan's 67th Independence Day celebrations at the High Commission here Thursday. "The purpose of the Vision 2025 plan is to transform Pakistan into an economically strong and prosperous country by providing a high quality of life for all citizens. "Having the same kind of vision with what Malaysia's current transformation plan is doing (that is going to last until 2020), Pakistan would want to emulate the model in which we strongly feel as the easier model to replicate than any other model in the world," he said. Syed Hassan said Pakistan would also want to emulate the structure of the transformation plan, which emphasised the importance of being more effective in the delivery of services and accountable for outcomes that mattered most to the people. He said another important aspect of the Malaysian model was its "economic design and how society has to be changed". "The Malaysian experience of energising the government itself (as compared to the last 25 years) and making the institution stronger by trying to put an end to any maladministration in the government, ending any kind of corruption in the society, be transparent and equitable to everybody -- these are very much in favour of Pakistan to endeavour in executing the vision," said the 55-year-old envoy. Pakistan's Vision 2025 was unveiled by Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif on Monday. -- BERNAMA