Punjab Chief Minister Shahbaz Sharif on Tuesday distributed laptops among approximately 945 talented male and female students at a ceremony held in Sahiwal.
The recipients included around 460 students from the Government Postgraduate College, 292 from the Sahiwal Campus of the Bahauddin Zakariya University, 97 from Sahiwal Medical College and 96 from the Government Girls College. A number of government officials attended the ceremony.
The CM requested the students to utilise computers as weapons against poverty and ignorance, and achieve a dignified status for the country by acquiring modern education. He said the distribution of the laptops would bring about a revolution in the education sector of Pakistan.
He added that the Punjab government would distribute another three hundred thousand laptops among brilliant students next year.
Sharif said that corruption was rampant, and there were reports of kickbacks in the purchases of new aircrafts for the PIA circulating in the country.
He added that it was the responsibility of the Pakistan government to provide learning opportunities to children of tonga drivers, cart-pushers and orphans from Peshawar to Karachi. He said the Punjab government had proved its commitment to polishing the talents of brilliant students by establishing Daanish Schools throughout the province.
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