More opportunities: ‘Youth need to be trained to work overseas'

Benazir Income Support Programme gives vocational training to a batch of 10,000 youth.

Benazir Income Support Programme gives vocational training to a batch of 10,000 youth.

KARACHI:


The youth needs to be trained to work overseas, said President Asif Ali Zardari while addressing a graduating batch of the Benazir Income Support Programme.



The batch of 10,000 youth had been given vocational training under the Waseela-e-Rozgar scheme of the programme.

The skills acquired during the programme would assist the graduates become more productive citizens, the president added.

A number of eminent individuals, including Chief Minister Qaim Ali Shah and Pakistan Peoples Party chairperson Bilawal Bhutto Zardari, attended the ceremony.

Published in The Express Tribune, January 8th, 2013.

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