Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif would relaunch the programme of distribution of laptops among outstanding students.

“Ek waari fir [one more time],” he tweeted in which he shared a picture of the laptop and the bag. According to the Associated Press of Pakistan, the ceremony would be held on Friday (today).

This is the flagship of PML-N that was initially spearheaded during his tenure as chief minister of Punjab.

“I am giving laptops to the youth, not Kalashnikov [rifle],” PM Shehbaz said in February this year at the launching ceremony of PM’s Youth Loan Program. He was reminding his critics that the same device was the source of education during the coronavirus pandemic.

Last month, the government decided to provide at least 100,000 laptops to students studying in public-sector higher education institutions under phase three of the PM’s Laptop Scheme.

Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif, after coming into power in 2013, announced a development package worth Rs20 billion for the country’s youth comprising six projects, that included the above mentioned initiative.

The purpose of such a project was to bring the country’s youth at par with the modern world in which the economic landscape is growing with the technology and provide them an enabling environment to compete in the world, Special Assistant to the PM on Youth Affairs Shaza Fatima Khawaja said on December 14, 2022.

Fifty per cent of the laptops would be given to women, transgender persons would be added to it, and the Balochistan quota has been doubled, she added then.