Bilawal on Children’s Day: 'Efforts on extraordinary levels' required for future generations

ISLAMABAD/KARACHI: Pakistan needed "efforts on extraordinary levels to give our future generations" a better future, Pakistan People’s Party (PPP) Chairperson Bilawal Bhutto Zardari said Tuesday — celebrated as the Universal Children’s Day (November 20).

“We, as a nation, need to make efforts on extraordinary levels to give our future generations justice, fair-play, equality and peace,” Bilawal said, adding that children were the most precious assets of human race.

The PPP chair said the prime responsibility of state and its institutions, besides the parents themselves, was to provide children with better health and education facilities. The majority of Pakistani children lacked many facilities due to injustice, inequality, and poverty, he added.

Bilawal pointed out that it was his mother and the former prime minister, Shaheed Benazir Bhutto, who started the polio vaccination for children in Pakistan although the polio vaccine was invented 40 years ago.

The PPP chair also appreciated Sindh government's legislation to protect children, including those on the street, but stressed for the need to do more.

“Every Pakistani child has the capacity to become like Shaheed Zulfikar Ali Bhutto and Shaheed Mohtarma Benazir Bhutto if they are given the required environment and facilities,” he stated.

Bilawal pledged that his party would give top priority to the well-being of children by giving them each and every facility to explore their fullest potential to become responsible citizens who contribute their best to nation-building.

The PPP chair said observing Universal Children’s Day across the world proved that Pakistan as a country should rise up to the heights as happy nations are required to have the happiest and healthy children.