Mamnoon asks youth to wage Jihad against corruption

ISLAMABAD: President Mamnoon Hussain on Friday said that despondency and hopelessness would end by adopting realism. Addressing the Convocation 2015 of National University of Modern Languages (NUML) at Convention Centre, the president said students should assimilate and make part of their lives the knowledge they have acquired from their elders and teachers.
“Training is very important along with acquiring education and if attention is not paid on the training of the youth then the nation would face moral degradation”, he remarked.
He expressed optimism that progress and prosperity is destiny of Pakistan. He said due to wars in the region not only thousands of innocent civilians embraced martyrdom in the country but also law and order situation deteriorated but now as a result of government policies and sacrifices by the armed forces of the country the law and order is being restored. He said that operation Zarb-e-Azb would continue till complete elimination of terrorism.
The president asked the youth to wage jihad for eradication of corruption because it rendered great losses to economic foundations of the country. He said it was responsibility of every person to do social boycott of corrupt elements.
The president said that China-Pakistan Economic Corridor (CPEC) is an important project which would change fate of the region adding in this regard the youth should acquire requisite skills. He said that new opportunities of employment and business would be created after the completion of CPEC which would usher in a new era of prosperity in the country.Earlier, the president distributed medals amongst students who had earned distinction in different fields.