KP to sponsor 600 students for scholarship in China

KP to sponsor 600 students for scholarship in China

PESHAWAR: Chief Minister Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Pervez Khattak has announced sponsoring 600 students of the province for IT related education in China.

The provincial government established the rule of law and ensured merit based decision making in the province he said adding that doing all this in a province hit heard by militancy and terrorism was not an easy task. However, his government was committed and took a number of visible steps to improve the situation and change the province, he remarked.

He was addressing the inaugural ceremony of under 23 games of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa at Hayatabad sports complex Peshawar. Chairman PTI Imran Khan and others also addressed the gathering.

He congratulated the sport department for holding the festival and directed to give all facilities to the players participating in the festival. He assured full backing of his government to the sport department.

He said that youth was the future of the nation and his government would provide everything within its reach to polish the talented player. He said that in the first steps his government was sponsoring 600 students for IT education in china which would be extended to one thousand students.

Pervez Khattak reminded that his government inherited wrongs and bad governance in the province. Institutions were in total disarray, corruption was rampant and the people had lost hope in the system, he recalled and added that fortunately PTI was supported by the youth and his government within no time wrapped up the old system and replaced a new that started delivering.

He said that the government focused on education and health and waged a Jehad against corruption. "We had a plan that we implemented and gave a clear road to future," he added.

He said PTI government started the rehabilitation of the existing grounds and added 50 additional grounds. The CM told the participants that his government has plan to build a ground in each Tehsil headquarters and hopefully it would succeed to complete 100 grounds soon. (APP)