QUETTA, Aug 3: Education Minister Zubaida Jalal said on Saturday scouts movement was, in fact, an education movement which played an important role in character building of children.

Inaugurating a five-day special scouts Agoonoree event, the minister said today’s youths were citizens of tomorrow who would run the affairs of the country.

Over 500 special scouts from all over the country and Azad Kashmir are participating in the event.

Ms Jalal, who is chief commissioner of the Pakistan Boys Scouts Association, said that holding of Agoonoree for special persons was an important event aimed at promoting unity, peace and brotherhood, which, she added, was the need of the hour.

She said scouts units had been set up at the district level in Balochistan and added that the government was taking many steps for promoting scouting in the province.

President Gen Pervez Musharraf’s massage was read out on the occasion. Souvenirs were distributed to many officials, including the provincial chief of Unicef, Abdul Ahad Achakzai, and secretary of the Balochistan Scouts Association, Sabir Hussain Niazi.