On International Youth Day, we celebrate the energy, talent and resolve of Pakistan’s youth. On International Youth Day, we celebrate the energy, talent and resolve of Pakistan’s youth. The prime minister said empowering young people through education, technology, entrepreneurship and equal access to opportunities was central to building the Pakistan envisioned by Quaid-e-Azam. He said the objective was to provide disadvantaged children with education of a standard comparable to elite institutions, but free of cost. The initiative, he stressed, was not charity but an effort to realise the principle of equal opportunity embedded in the welfare-state model envisioned by the country’s founder."