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Youth loans scheme funds

Letter December 19, 2013
Loan scheme will only end up promoting a culture of borrowing and that is something that the country can do without.

KARACHI: Instead of using Rs100 billion giving out loans to young Pakistanis, why doesn’t the government spend that much on expanding the country’s power generation capacity, or on building new schools and hospitals?

The loan scheme will only end up promoting a culture of borrowing and that is something that the country can do without.

Faran Muhammad Khan

Published in The Express Tribune, December 20th, 2013.

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