JI launches initiative to impart IT training to KP youth

PESHAWAR: The Bano Qabil programme was launched to impart Information Technology (IT) training to the youth of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa and an aptitude test was conducted at the spacious grounds of the historic Islamia College University here on Saturday.

Thousands of male and female students from across the province appeared in the aptitude test that was organized in an exemplary disciplined manner. The entire university had been beatified with large banners. Guidance camp had been installed at a small distance from one another to guide the students.

Jamaat-e-Islami chief Hafiz Naeemur Rahman was the chief guest on the occasion. JI provincial President Prof Mohammad Ibrahim Khan, general secretary Abdul Wasi, provincial president of Alkhidmat Foundation Khalid Waqas, general secretary Shakir Ahmad Siddiqui, patron-in-chief of the Bano Qabil Inayatullah Khan and other dignitaries of the city were also present on the occasion.

Hafiz Naeemur Rahman delivered a well-articulated and impressive speech to motivate the youth. He said it was the duty of the government to provide education, health and employment to the people.

“The government can impose taxes on electricity, gas and food items but it cannot impart training to the people,” he said, adding, “We will not leave our youth at the mercy of cruel rulers.”

He said that some 26.2 million children were out of school, adding that around 4 million youth, who have completed their studies, were jobless.

“This is the right of the people to have better education and health facilities. We will snatch these rights from the rulers,” he stressed.

He urged the youth to come forward and get the best education and skill to rid the country of the so-called elites. He said that the youth should not get depressed.

He said that the journey of the Bano Qabil programme had started from Karachi and reached Peshawar now. “We will impart free IT training to one million youth. Around 100,000 teachers would be trained,” he said.

The youth when trained and employed would enhance the national economy, he hoped. “Let me tell you that Pakistan has no fault. The fault rests with the elites, who have been plundering the national resources for 75 years,” he said.

Khalid Waqas said that 16 IT courses would be taught to the students. Resource centres would be established in almost all the district headquarters where quality training would be imparted to the students free of charge, he added.