Key points
- Pakistan premier has launched PM’s Digital Youth Hub
- Digital Youth Hub is beginning of bright future: PM
- Youth is driving force behind nation’s progress: Rana Mashhood
ISLAMABAD: Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif has launched PM’s Digital Youth Hub, aimed at providing youth with an invaluable environment and opportunities through engagement, employment, education, and skill development.
Addressing the launching ceremony in Islamabad, he stressed harnessing the true potential of the youth by imparting them with training in modern technologies including Information Technology, Artificial Intelligence, and Vocational Training, according to Radio Pakistan.
The Prime Minister said modern technology is the prerequisite in the current global world and the Digital Youth Hub is the beginning of a bright future of the youth of Pakistan.
Getting higher education
He said the Digital Youth Hub will serve as a unique platform for providing opportunities to the youth to get higher education, employment, technology scholarships, and skill development.
PM Shehbaz Sharif said he had tasked Rana Mashhood with creating employment opportunities for the youth. He assured that the government would cut down unnecessary expenses to allocate more funds for youth training programmes.
“We need to provide such training that directly leads to employment,” he stated, reaffirming his commitment to providing all the resources needed for the youth’s economic empowerment.
Empowering young generation
Shehbaz Sharif reaffirmed his commitment to providing all possible resources to the Prime Minister’s Digital Youth Hub initiative for the empowerment of the young generation.
Terming the youth as a great asset of the country, he said with proper training in modern technologies, youth can be transformed into a valuable national resource.
He called upon the youth to actively pursue a life of dignity through consistent hard work and dedication, with a special focus on getting a modern education.
Shehbaz Sharif said the youth of Pakistan is a great challenge and opportunity, and there is a need to polish this challenge and opportunity through the latest technology. He said productive employment of youth is the main target of the government through this portal.
Rights of youth
The Prime Minister expressed his firm commitment to fight for the rights of youth, provision of education, and modern training in collaboration with all the provinces, Azad Jammu and Kashmir and Gilgit-Baltistan.
Addressing the ceremony, Chairman Prime Minister’s Youth Programme Rana Mashhood Ahmad Khan termed youth as the driving force behind the nation’s progress and the architects of a brighter future.
He said the Digital Youth Hub is designed by using cutting-edge technology and global best practices.
Highlighting the key feature of the PM’s Digital Youth Hub, the Chairman of Prime Minister’s Youth Programme said it is a data-driven and AI-based system, which will generate messages according to the experience and capability of the members.
Rana Mashhood Ahmad Khan said the journey towards transforming the youth has been initiated. He said Digital Youth Hub is one of its own kind of portal which will reshape the youth. He said through this portal, the young people will be given training as per the job requirements of the global market.
Opportunity and hope
Rana Mashhood reaffirmed the resolve to make the IT industry worth twenty-five billion dollars. He said through PM Digital Hub, the youth would benefit in various sectors including sports, tourism, sports, IT, green economy and others.
In her remarks, United Nations International Children Emergency Fund (UNICEF) Officer In-charge Sharmeela Rasool said it is a platform of opportunity and hope. She said this programme is aimed at making the youth stronger and a productive people of the country.
Speaking on the occasion, United Nations Resident Coordinator, Muhammad Yahya said the Digital Youth Hub has been designed to make youth capable of exploring their capabilities. He said the launch of the Prime Minister’s Digital Youth Hub is the start of a journey of development and prosperity for Pakistan.
Changing country’s destiny
“We have to change this country’s destiny through hard work, not by relying on loans,” he said, adding that banks earned a windfall due to the depreciation of the rupee in 2021. “In one year, we made a plan on how we can improve the economy.”
PM Shehbaz Sharif also highlighted recent financial recoveries, stating that Rs34 billion had been added to the national treasury in just three weeks. He revealed that cases worth trillions of rupees related to taxes are pending in courts, and recent efforts have successfully resolved some of them, according to the Express Tribune.
“For years, tax-related cases remained in the Sindh and Lahore High Courts, but we resolved them, bringing Rs11 billion into the treasury,” he said.
