Govt committed to cope with challenge of unemployment: Bukhari

ISLAMABAD: Special Assistant to the Prime Minister on Overseas Pakistanis and Human Resource Development Syed Zulfikar Abbas Bukhari on Thursday said the government was fully committed to cope with the challenge of unemployment in the country.

“Unemployment is a social issue that leads to an increased sense of deprivation among youth and gives birth to different social evils, including terrorism”, he stated while addressing a function in Islamabad.

Bukhari said Prime Minister Imran Khan is fully focused on human resource development to harness the true potential of the young generation for the country’s development. He said, in past, minimum funds were earmarked for the health and education sectors.

He said we have to build technical and vocational training centers so that the skilled young people are able to avail employment opportunities.

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The PM assistant said government is also concentrating on special economic zones which will also be helpful in creation of jobs within the country.

He said foreign investment is also being attracted to make Pakistan a developed country.

Earlier,Zulfikar Bukhari had said the promise of 100,000 jobs is going to become a reality now.

He had said this while inaugurating ‘Visa Facilitation Center’ along with Qatari Ambassador to Pakistan Saqar bin Mubarak in Islamabad.