By Anzal Amin
ISLAMABAD: Prime Minister Muhammad Shehbaz Sharif on Sunday said that the country’s future hinged upon the well-educated and skilled youth and, for the provision of quality education, the federal government would facilitate high achievers with a scholarship scheme to study in well-reputed global educational institutes.
The prime minister expressed these views during a meeting with Ikramullah, a student from Balochistan province, who is currently studying in the 9th class at Lawrence College Murree.
Under the prime minister’s direction, the student from the 2022 flood-affected area of Qila Saifullah was provided with the facility to receive education at the country’s prominent educational institute.
The prime minister recalled that he had met the desperate student in the Khasnoob camp in Qila Saifullah when floods had caused destruction in Balochistan province in 2022.
Shehbaz said that he had assured the student of the provision of quality education, adding that it pleased him greatly that the student was now studying at Lawrence College. The student thanked the prime minister for giving him the opportunity to meet him. Congratulating the prime minister, he said that he prayed for Shehbaz Sharif for his kind gesture.
The student also expressed his resolve to achieve the goal and serve the country in the future. The prime minister advised him to serve the nation and country by working hard and concentrating on his studies.
He assured that all his educational expenditures would be borne by the government as the students were the future and hope for the country.
The prime minister said that when he had visited the flood-affected area, the student was in a protest mood, but now he was showing a discernible change.
PM Shehbaz mentioned that in Punjab province, they had sent high achievers to study in the best European and Scandinavian countries who later returned completely transformed and full of confidence
The prime minister also welcomed the principal and house master of Lawrence College and gave gifts to the student, including a pen and tablet, expressing the hope that it would help him in his studies. Ikramullah also presented a set of books to the prime minister. The prime minister personally saw off the student from the Prime Minister’s House.
