PESHAWAR, Aug 10: Minister of State for Information and Broadcasting Anisa Zeb Tahirkheli has called upon the youth to equip themselves with proper education to meet future challenges.

“Our forefathers rendered sacrifices for freedom. But maintaining the freedom is a far more challenging task than getting it”, she said while talking to reporters at the PTV Peshawar Centre where a musical concert was recorded on Wednesday which would be telecast on the Independence Day.

She said youths were ray of hope of country’s bright future and there was a need to make them learn modern skills and get scientific knowledge. She said that Pakistan was a sovereign country and had the capability to defend its integrity but the youths had to play major role in its progress and development.

The Almighty Allah, she said, had bestowed upon our country a lot of blessings in the shape of mountains, fountains, fertile lands, rivers and green resorts and it was obligatory upon all of its 150 million souls to make use of them, she added.

“It is duty of all of us to recall sacrifices of our forefathers for freedom. We should pledge to maintain this freedom which allows us to talk, breath and live in accordance with our own religious and cultural traditions”, she added.