SWAT: Chairman Prime Minister’s Youth Programme Rana Mashhood Ahmed Khan on Sunday asked youth to get themselves registered with the PM’s digital portal for availing laptops, jobs and other facilities.

He said under the initiative up to 1.5 million youth would be provided job opportunities both inside and outside the country on merit.

Addressing a public gathering at Matta tehsil here, he said that laptops, scholarships and dignified jobs were being given to youth on merit irrespective of their political backgrounds.

Mr Ahmed said that on the directives of Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif, he had started visiting different universities to inform students about the services and facilities being provided to them under the PM Youth Programme.

He said Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz would make Pakistan an economically and financially strong country.

Despite tough challenges, he said the prime minister had put the country’s economy back on positive track, reducing policy rate, unemployment, poverty, price hike, petrol, electricity, gas prices and inflation significantly.

Mr Ahmed said former prime minister Nawaz Sharif had made Pakistan’s defence impregnable after successful nuclear tests on May 28, 1998. He said now India could not dare cast an evil eye on Pakistan.

Mr Ahmed said that Pakistan’s rights on western rivers water had been accepted by India under Indus Water Treaty guaranteed by the World Bank.

He said India had no justification to stop Pakistan’s share of water. He said minorities were not safe in India and human rights violations in Indian Illegally Occupied Jammu and Kashmir continued unabated.

Mr Ahmed said the PTI had failed to address problems of people despite its 12 years rule in KP. He insisted that the PML-N would also win the next elections and would address the longstanding sense of deprivation of Khyber Pakthunkhwa people.

Published in Dawn, April 28th, 2025