‘Youth can make Pakistan peaceful’

LAHORE
PUNJAB Minister for Education and Youth Affairs Rana Mashhood Ahmed Khan has said that only youth can save Pakistan from divisions and terrorism.
The Punjab government will soon start programme to help and sponsor admissions of toppers in various grades to get admission in world’s prominent universities hoping that they would come back and serve the nation. He was addressing the concluding session of a three-day national “Pur Amn (Peaceful) Pakistan Conference” held on Friday. More than 300 students across Pakistan’s public and private universities, teachers, academics, peace activists and parliamentarians attended the conference. Parents and families of many children killed in Army Public School Peshawar also attended the conference.
The conference, on concluding day, recommended the government to take stern action against all types of extremists and terrorist groups without any discrimination of “good” or “bad”. The conference declaration called the government for taking effective measures to curb hate speech and hate material in general books and textbooks.