Scholarships for K-P, Balochistan promised

Punjab Chief Minister Maryam Nawaz Sharif has expressed her desire to provide Honhaar scholarships to students from Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa and Balochistan as well.

Addressing a Honhaar Scholarship award ceremony in Dera Ghazi Khan, she announced a plan to establish an incubation centre at Ghazi University. She issued directives to fulfill the educational needs of the university's students. "We do not believe in violence, and are the torch-bearers of knowledge, peace and development," she asserted.

She said, "I never want you to abuse anyone, a mother cannot incite her children to commit violence. Pakistan, besides facing other problems, is also facing a serious problem of fake news. Children should not believe in social media posts without verification. The previous government did nothing for the well-being and development of Pakistan for the last four years.

At the end they incited people to commit unlawful activities and labelled others as thieves."

She added, "Even if PML-N does not hold its government, it cannot incite its followers to commit vandalism and other unlawful activities."

The chief minister said, "Those using abusive language, disrespecting others and resorting to violent steps against your country are not your friends. Pakistan is our red line, martyrs, Rangers and police belong to us.

Those who put petrol bombs in the hands of our children instead of scholarships besides waging nefarious propaganda regarding the Honhaar Scholarship are condemnable."

The chief minister said, "This year, 30,000 scholarships have been given and next year 50,000 scholarships will be given. We are introducing scholarships for second and third year children soon."

She said the Punjab government was also receiving applications from students in K-P, stating that they should also be given scholarships. She added, "I want to give scholarships to the children of K-P and Balochistan."

She said, "I belong to Punjab, but am Pakistani first. I will never urge my followers to burn the metro bus and motorways. Muhammad Nawaz Sharif built motorways to connect Pakistan, he did not use them to attack Punjab from K-P. Activists set metro bus on fire, which is run for the wellbeing of people."

She said, "Those who spread chaos have lured the youth to commit unlawful activities and sent them to jail. The anarchists have destroyed the future of Pakistan's children and their children are sitting abroad. When the worst enemy's government remained in power, I heard the news of the death of my mother in jail and the sickness of my father, but did not ask anyone to burn the country.

The government can be anyone's but Pakistan is ours. On the one hand, we want our children to study, progress while on the other hand, the anarchists are bent upon sending your youth to jail by luring them to indulge in anarchist activities. Those who keep their children in Europe and send the country's children to jail are not sympathetic to them."