{"id":39433,"date":"2026-01-26T16:03:52","date_gmt":"2026-01-26T16:03:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/?p=39433"},"modified":"2026-01-26T16:03:52","modified_gmt":"2026-01-26T16:03:52","slug":"pakistan-calls-for-utilising-precious-gemstone-reserves","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/archives\/39433","title":{"rendered":"Pakistan calls for utilising precious gemstone reserves"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>ISLAMABAD: Pakistan\u2019s prime minister Shehbaz Sharif has emphasized optimum utilization of precious gemstone reserves in the country for generating maximum foreign exchange from their exports.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>He was chairing a meeting in Islamabad to discuss promotion of gemstones and minerals.<\/p>\n<p>The Prime Minister directed all provinces and governments of Azad Kashmir and Gilgit Baltistan to work in unison for the development of the gemstone industry.<\/p>\n<p>He also instructed the relevant officials to seek services of international experts of this sector for the construction of proposed gemstone centers in Islamabad, Gilgit-Baltistan and Azad Kashmir.<\/p>\n<p>He also directed for the completion of Islamabad Gemstone Center by August next year and ensuring implementation of the policy framework with the help of international experts.<\/p>\n<p>The Prime Minister also instructed to use latest technology and equipment\u00a0 in the proposed gemstone centers and increase gemstone exports through value addition.<\/p>\n<p>The meeting was briefed on measures taken to promote the gemstone industry.<\/p>\n<p>The meeting was told that work has been started on geo-fencing scientific roadmap for gemstones.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ISLAMABAD: Pakistan\u2019s prime minister Shehbaz Sharif has emphasized optimum utilization of precious gemstone reserves in the country for generating maximum foreign exchange from their exports.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 He was chairing a meeting in Islamabad to discuss promotion of gemstones and minerals. The Prime Minister directed all provinces and governments of Azad Kashmir and Gilgit Baltistan to work [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":39431,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31,32],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-39433","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-pakistan"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39433","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=39433"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39433\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":39434,"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39433\/revisions\/39434"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/39431"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=39433"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=39433"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=39433"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}