KARACHI, June 11: Speakers at the Hamdard Naunehal Assembly meeting have urged students to spend most of their leisure time of their summer vacations in reading promote the habit in them.The meeting was held on the topic, “How to Spend Summer Vacations”, and was chaired by speaker of the Naunehal Assembly Nusrat Khawaja at a local hotel on Friday.

Ms Fatima Hasan, a poetess and Director Public Relations, Training and Research, speaking to the assembly of children stressed the need for promoting personal quality and inborn talent at an early age because every talent developed stability in childhood.

She said nothing was more valuable than time in life calling the wastage of time a very bad habit.

She was of the view that children must read books other than their course ones and the vacation was the best time for doing so.

Children must use their leisure time in other good works such as painting, drawing of pictures and sketches. Girls may use this time in sewing cloths and making embroidery, she said while advising all children to make reading a daily habit.

Ms Hasan said that sitting in the company of elders and learning good things from them was also a good use of one’s summer vacations.

She said that all parents could not afford taking their children to hill stations in the vacations so these children should not get depressed or loose heart.

Instead, they should search out places of their interest and enjoyment in their vicinity, she added.

Leader of the house Pervez, opposition leader Ramsha Kanwal and other children were the speakers, while Gulshan Ara Syed, a prominent singer, Kush Bakht Shujaat, noted compere, parents, teachers and students of various schools also attended the function.—PPI