ISLAMABAD: Minister for Defence Khawaja Muhammad Asif on Friday called that nation to pledge for further strengthening the country on its upcoming diamond jubilee 75th Independence Day celebrations would be marked across the country with national zeal and spirit.
He was addressing the ‘Pakistan Youth Convention’ along with Federal Minister for Education Rana Tanveer Hussain, Federal Minister for Information and Broadcasting Marriyum Aurangzeb and Special Assistant to the Prime Minister on Youth Affairs Shaza Fatima Khawaja.
Khawaja said Pakistan’s population youth bulge was around 65% of its total population which was an asset.
“It is actually our future. We have spent our lives and seen Pakistan progressing for 75 years and pray for its further stability and progress. Our youth is leading different sectors like politics, military, bureaucracy, media, business etc.” The minister said that the policy makers, leaders and stakeholders should set the target to give a Pakistan free from hatred and division which had love, tolerance and harmony. “When the societies are fed with hatred, discrimination they just wither away. The generations that of me or my parents, the historians will judge that what we have done for this country and what has not been done,” he said.
Khawja mentioned that the sense of hopelessness was permeating into our population particularly among the youth that had to be changed into opportunity and end this dejection. –Agencies
