RISALPUR: Prime Minister Zulfikar Ali Bhutto said today [Nov 3] that the country must have a highly motivated and professionally competent lot of officers and men to match the adversaries’ superiority in material and resources. … Addressing the 4th Convocation of the Military College of Engineering here, Mr Bhutto said Pakistan is blessed with abundant manpower which should be trained and inculcated with [a] sense of duty and discipline. …

He said Pakistan could take pride in the development of training facilities in the Army institutions since the birth of Pakistan. “We have shared these facilities with our brethren from the Islamic and Afro-Asian world. Many students from these friendly countries have been trained in our institutions. …” The Prime Minister called on every citizen, be he a soldier or a peasant, a factory worker or an office employee, to join in nation-building activities. “We have a social and moral responsibility in harnessing of our resources, to combat hunger and poverty and achieve technological and economic progress. We have a long way to go but Insha Allah … we will build a progressive and prosperous Pakistan.”

Published in Dawn, November 4th, 2023