President urges youth to contribute to Pakistan's socioeconomic uplift

ISLAMABAD: President Arif Alvi here on Friday expressed the confidence that the youth would make their contributions for socioeconomic uplift of the country.

Addressing the 8th convocation of Air University in Islamabad, President Arif Alvi said that nobody could stop us now to build a new Pakistan and added that the country was ready to march on the path of development after successfully passing through testing times.

Arif Alvi, however noted that uplifting the deprived and poor segments of the society was imperative for overall development of the country.

The president pointed out that about twenty million children were out of school and it was also the responsibility of the educated youth to play their part for their education.

He especially hailed the efforts put in by the Air University for bringing the out of school children to the educational institutions. Earlier, the president also gave away awards and medals to the outstanding graduating students.

Earlier in the day, President Dr Arif Alvi said that the opening of E-visas and visa on arrival facilities would attract more businessmen and tourists towards Pakistan.

“The government is committed to providing amiable business environment to the foreign investors in the country”, he said while addressing the inaugural dinner of the 2nd International Textile Expo 2019 in Lahore.

The president welcomed the 300 foreign representatives besides 400 exhibitors to the four-day TEXPO.