'We have to invest in youth to end extremism'

Sindh governor inaugurates six-day Karachi Youth Festival at Arts Council

KARACHI: If we want to end fundamentalism and terrorism from our society, then we have to invest in the education and training of our youth.

This was stated by Governor Mohammad Zubair while addressing a youth training pilot project held at a youth festival in Arts Council of Pakistan, Karachi on Wednesday. The governor was the chief guest.



According to him, our women are playing a major role in the development and progress of our country. Around 75% of primary education is in the hands of the women of our country, he claimed.

While inaugurating the six-day-long youth festival, Zubair said that Arts Council has become the largest hub of cultural and literary activities in Pakistan, which would help transform the cultural and social landscape in the country.

Karachi Commissioner Ejaz Ahmed Khan and vice chancellors of different universities were also present at the occasion.



Arts Council President Ahmed Shah said that the fine arts should be made a compulsory part of the school curriculum. He maintained that Arts Council has initiated a very successful programme where hundreds of thousands of students belonging to middle and lower class are being trained in different fields, such as public speaking, theatre and music in 109 colleges and universities.

The governor said that such activities would revive social activities in Karachi and maintained that this is a true picture of Quaid-e-Azam's Pakistan.



"We have put our society on the wrong track and we all are responsible for causing a huge loss to our country," the governor said, adding that it was now the collective responsibility of society to bring the country back on the right track.

Quaid-e-Azam's vision was for the country to have liberty, he said, adding that everyone has the right to say what they deem right.

According to Zubair, tolerance and discourse should be everyone's right and activities like music, theatre and painting have a significant role to play in society.