In Dubai, Pakistan’s federal minister held a substantive meeting with United Arab Emirates Deputy Minister for Cabinet Affairs (Strategic Affairs) Huda Alhashmi to discuss strategic governance reforms, long-term national planning and cooperation to promote innovation in the public sector. The dialogue centred on practical collaboration to support Pakistan’s reform agenda under Udaan Pakistan and to exchange institutional best practices.
The minister conveyed that under Prime Minister Muhammad Shehbaz Sharif the government is implementing a comprehensive, future-oriented reform agenda aimed at modernising governance. She highlighted that careful fiscal management and difficult but necessary reforms have helped bring inflation down from 38 percent to around 5 percent, restoring macroeconomic stability and creating space for sustained policy measures under Udaan Pakistan.
Details of the Udaan Pakistan economic roadmap were shared, including the ambition to transform Pakistan into a $1 trillion economy by 2035 and to reach $3 trillion by 2047. As part of this transition Pakistan is moving away from traditional bureaucratic models toward a high-performance civil service structure focused on merit, results and incentives to improve public service delivery.
Both sides explored cooperation in key areas where UAE experience can be adapted to Pakistan, including AI-driven governance, education reform, reducing childhood stunting and effective population management. Huda Alhashmi described the UAE’s zero government bureaucracy initiative and explained how government accelerator models align institutional goals with national priorities, ensure measurable outcomes and foster transparency and healthy competition.
The UAE deputy minister assured full support for Pakistan in adopting performance-based governance models and scaling AI, education and institutional reforms. The meeting reinforced mutual interest in translating long-term planning into actionable projects with cross-ministry alignment to realise Udaan Pakistan’s targets and strengthen Pakistan’s public sector performance.
