Position holder students were given red carpet reception at Lahore Airport

Lahore: Forty top position holder students from all over Pakistan currently on a study tour of European universities returned to their homeland today. The position holders were accorded warm welcome at Lahore airport. Provincial Minister for Law, Education, Sports and Tourism, Rana Mashhood Ahmad Khan, Member Punjab Assembly Ms. Tahia Noon, Secretary Higher Education Department Punjab Abdullah Khan Sumbal, Secretary Schools Education Abdul Jabbar Shaheen and Chairman Board of Intermediate and Secondary Education Lahore Dr. Nasrullah Virk alongwith other senior officers received the forty member delegation of position holder students.

 Talking to media after receiving the position holders, Rana Mahhood Ahmad Khan highlighted the education friendly vision of the Punjab Chief Minister Muhammad Shahbaz Sharif and lauded him for his keen interest in promotion of both elementary as well as higher education in Punjab through allocating ample monetary resources to reform the education sector in Punjab.

The Minister said, the study tour of 24 world fame foreign universities by the toppers of our education boards from Punjab, Sindh, Balochistan, KPK, Gilgit Baltistan, AJK and FATA not only help strengthen interprovincial harmony but this tour of the educational institutions of the developed countries help induce tolerance, peaceful co-existence and build confidence in the personality of the young students.

Rana Mashhood Ahmad Khan advised the toppers to behave like role model for the other students as they have availed a golden chance to observe the best practices in the field of education being practiced in the world. It was responsibility of the government to give exposure to the shining students as the Punjab Chief Minister Muhammad Shahbaz Sharif has given VIP status to the toppers of various educational examinations. We are investing in the future of Pakistan because the brilliant position holders will become our future leaders in various sectors of the society. In the days to come, the best inventors, business tycoons, nuclear scientists and exemplary statesmen will emerge from these extraordinary intelligent groups of students.

23 boy students and 17 girl students among the top position holders presented the daily diary report of their study tour to the Minister Education Punjab. The Minister appreciated the efforts of the brilliant youth and claimed that three public sector universities of the province of Punjab have found place in the top five hundred universities of the world and the government of the Punjab has fixed the target to achieve remarkable position in hundred Asian rankings also in the next two years. The establishment of Knowledge Park Lahore will definitely help achieve this target, the minister added.