KARACHI: The Pakistani youth should carefully choreograph a sellable narrative in Europe and portray the real face of Pakistan before the world, an official said on Tuesday.

A delegation of Youth Parliament Pakistan visited Islamabad Policy Research Institute (IPRI), and was debriefed on the activities and scope of Pakistan’s premier think tank.

President Youth Parliament of Pakistan Ubaid Qureshi, who led the delegation expressed his interest in learning more from IPRI’s research work, and called for documenting a framework of interaction to project Pakistan’s case in a refreshing and realistic manner before the world at large.

IPRI Executive Director Dr Hussain Nadim said that IPRI is now more focused on a theme of synthetic research on the premise of data, innovation and technology.

IPRI is Pakistan’s only internationally-recognised think tank rated at 74th in world ranking. It has signed 31 memorandum of understandings (MoUs) with more than 20 countries, and is the first one in Pakistan to have a digital library.

Brigadier Naveed Ali (Retd) called upon the youth to carefully choreograph a narrative that is sellable in Europe, and portray the real face of Pakistan.

He urged that there is no need to indulge in the sensitivities of Europe as the world is increasingly tilting towards nationalism and extremism. He pointed out that the labour-intensive industry, human rights and scholarship at graduate levels are areas where focus should rest so that the maximum could be worked out with Europe and the United Kingdom.

IPRI Research Associate Umar Khan said that GSP-Plus status, Islamophobia, illegal migration, Kashmir dispute and Free Trade Agreement (FTA) are avenues that have the maximum potential of interaction between Pakistan and the European Union.