Chief of Army Staff (COAS) Qamar Javed Bajwa has termed Balochi youth as an engine of national development.
COAS addressing at a seminar on “Human Resource Development for the youth of Balochistan – Opportunities and Challenges” said that presently over 25,000 Baloch students were receiving quality education at various army and FC-run schools / cadet colleges all over Pakistan. Nearly 20,000 sons of Balochistan are serving in army including over 600 as officers while 232 cadets are undergoing training at PMA, Kakul.
He said that so much was only the representation in Pakistan Army and the number gets even higher when we take into account Baloch youth in Pakistan Air Force, Pakistan Navy and other Law Enforcement Agencies.
The COAS said that our future is bright and our youth is fully capable of taking on the mantle.
Balochi youth is as capable as youth of any area of Pakistan.
The COAS said that we have enough resources we just need to improve our human resource. The civil service needs to be made attractive so that the top talent comes to civil service. It is the backbone of any country.
The COAS also announced establishment of MRI center at Turbat while expediting establishment of already announced educational institutions.
The COAS said that army is a state institution meant to serve the nation. Army shall continue to perform its role while national security and development remains a national obligation for all state institutions.
He also said that he believes in democracy and even more so in the democratic values of selfless service and supremacy of moral authority. All of us have a duty to the nation, he added
