LAHORE: During a speech at the Aitchison College’s 125th Founder’s Day on Saturday, Prime Minister Yousaf Raza Gilani hinted at the possibility of establishing the prestigious institution in other provinces of the country.
Punjab Governor Sardar Latif Khosa, who is also the president of the Aitchison College Board of Governors, had earlier requested the premier to set up the college in the other three provincial headquarters, to acknowledge the services of the institute.
Gilani directed Governor Khosa to work on a plan to establish Aitchison colleges in the other three provincial headquarters and report back to him in this regard.
Meanwhile, Gilani encouraged the students to remain optimistic and prepare themselves well to meet challenges. “Treat difficulties as challenges. Extremist forces seek to snatch our values. We have to inculcate values of respect and nationalism in our students,” he said. “I would like to quote Mohtarama Benazir Bhutto who said, ‘An inferior idea can be killed by a superior idea only’,” he added.
The premier further said that according to the 18th Amendment, every child in Pakistan should be educated and added that the target to enroll children in primary schools should be completed by 2015 to meet the Millennium Development Goals.
He said that the Chinese model had proved that population wasn’t always a burden and said that 65% of Pakistan’s population was below 25 and could do wonders.
Gilani further said that building character, and not just employment, ought to be the primary goal of education.
Furthermore, he announced a grant of Rs20 million to establish an information technology block for the college and Rs10 million to purchase the equipment.
Published in The Express Tribune, November 13th, 2011.
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Next thing you know he'll promising Pakistan will become a tiger economy. (Just like Nawaz use to) They (the PPP) try and destroy higher education now they are promising Aitchison colleges like they are distributing candy. If it's so easy to do then why didn't they deliver these things back in 1988? What has been holding them back for the last 3 years? What have they delivered in the last 3 years?
I have witniced in america rich peoples gives so many good universerties to its peoples but in pakistan i allways wonder how rude and selfish are these peoples specially land fuedals and also bussnismen they dont care to build some thing like that i think only imran khan has build one college in komal miawali god bless him.
Always proud to be an Aitchisonian.
I am an Aitchisonian (Aitchison College) as well as an Abdalian (Cadet College Hasan Abdal), and I strongly believe that institutions like these are the reason that Pakistan is still a country. My time at both these colleges was awesome and I made lifelong friends there, although I might be slightly biased towards CCH because I also experienced the "military-style" life there. The mottoes of both college, "Perseverance commands success" (AC) and "Second to None" (CCH) are something that every single student who ever was an Aitchisonian or an Abdalian, looks to for inspiration in life, and the sense of fraternity that develops among batch-mates is exemplary.
"Government does not need to show its strength or muscles: Gilani "
Rightly said.. The present government does not have any strength or muscles left..