{"id":6549,"date":"2026-09-10T13:36:29","date_gmt":"2026-09-10T13:36:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lumeamara.online\/?p=6549"},"modified":"2026-09-10T13:36:33","modified_gmt":"2026-09-10T13:36:33","slug":"finance-minister-lauds-gates-foundations-support-engagement-with-pakistan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lumeamara.online\/?p=6549","title":{"rendered":"Finance Minister lauds Gates Foundation&#8217;s support, engagement with Pakistan"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Finance Minister lauds &lt;a href=&quot;https:\/\/lumeamara.online\/?p=6522&quot; title=&quot;Govt deepens Gates Foundation ties on <a href=\"https:\/\/lumeamara.online\/?p=6504\" title=\"World Mental Health Day webinar\">health<\/a>, finance, AI&#8221;&gt;Gates Foundation<\/a>&#8216;s <a href=\"https:\/\/lumeamara.online\/?p=6532\" title=\"Report calls for support for perinatal mental health in Suffolk\">support<\/a>, engagement with Pakistan<br \/>\n\u00a0\u00a0<br \/>\nSeptember 10, 2026<\/p>\n<p>Finance Minister Senator Muhammad Aurangzeb has appreciated the Gates Foundation&#8217;s continued support and engagement with Pakistan<\/p>\n<p>He was talking to a high-level delegation of Gates Foundation, which called on him in Islamabad today<\/p>\n<p>The Gates Foundation was led by President Gender Equality Division, Dr. Anita Zaidi, and Interim President Global Policy and Advocacy Division Ms. Kalpana Kochhar<\/p>\n<p>The discussion covered population growth and its implications for maternal and child health, nutrition, poverty and girls&#8217; education. \u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The Finance Minister emphasized the value of further collaboration through knowledge sharing, technical expertise and international experience<\/p>\n<p>The Finance Minister appreciated the Gates Foundation&#8217;s continued engagement and emphasized the value of its financial support, technical expertise and knowledge sharing in advancing Pakistan&#8217;s development priorities<\/p>\n<p>During the meeting, Ms. Kalpana Kochhar briefed the Finance Minister on the Foundation&#8217;s growing engagement in Pakistan, particularly in human capital, child health, nutrition, maternal health and women&#8217;s economic participation<\/p>\n<p>In his remarks, Dr. Anita Zaidi briefed the Finance Minister on the Foundation&#8217;s maternal health work and the use of artificial intelligence to improve health outcomes. She reaffirmed the Foundation&#8217;s commitment to Pakistan<\/p>\n<p>The Gates Foundation representatives welcomed progress in Pakistan&#8217;s financial sector and expressed interest in supporting greater access to finance, particularly for SMEs, through improved information flows, digital footprints and cash-flow-based lending. \u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Both sides agreed to deepen collaboration across human capital, health, financial inclusion and digital innovation<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/lumeamara.online\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/3874617001789022171.jpg\" alt=\"\"><br \/>\nDPM, Turkish FM discuss regional developments<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/lumeamara.online\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/5644727991789040511.jpg\" alt=\"\"><br \/>\nBII vows to expand investment in Pakistan<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/lumeamara.online\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/13825633771789030642.jpg\" alt=\"\"><br \/>\nPakistan condemns persecution of Yasin Malik by India<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/lumeamara.online\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/16690019461789018911.jpg\" alt=\"\"><br \/>\nPakistan&#8217;s mineral wealth offers major opportunities for investment: Jam<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/lumeamara.online\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/17144812931789041255.jpg\" alt=\"\"><br \/>\nMinister for Communications represented Pakistan at solemn funeral service of King Harald-V of Norway<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Finance Minister lauds Gates Foundation&#8217;s support, engagement with Pakistan \u00a0\u00a0 September 10, 2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":6556,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[207,1544,1535,1543,489],"class_list":["post-6549","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-parenting","tag-finance","tag-foundations","tag-gates","tag-lauds","tag-minister"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lumeamara.online\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6549","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lumeamara.online\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lumeamara.online\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lumeamara.online\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lumeamara.online\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6549"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lumeamara.online\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6549\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6555,"href":"https:\/\/lumeamara.online\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6549\/revisions\/6555"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lumeamara.online\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/6556"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lumeamara.online\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6549"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lumeamara.online\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6549"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lumeamara.online\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6549"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}