President of Social New Generation Organisation says that youth should focus on resolving the country’s problems instead of thinking about running away from them.
The National Youth Conference at the Bahauddin Zakariya University ended on Thursday. It was organised to highlight the role of youth in the stability of national progress.
Addressing the concluding ceremony of the two-day event, Vice Chancellor Khawaja Alqama said that the political and social situation in the country was affecting the youth’s self-esteem and sapping their confidence. He said the rising unemployment was also a cause of frustration among the youth.
He said he planned to organise an international youth conference at the university next year to “tell the world how talented and hardworking the Pakistani youth are”.
He said that the social media had brought the youth to an “age of extra-ordinary grooming”.
Noor Muhammad, president of the Social New Generation Organisation said the youth should focus on resolving the country’s problems instead of thinking about running away from them.
“An educated youth is part of the solution as they are easily convinced on rational foundations of any dialogue for the welfare of the country,” he said. Some 500 members, including BZU alumni, from all over Pakistan attended the youth conference organised at the university’s Jinnah Auditorium.
Published in The Express Tribune, January 18th, 2013.
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