Punjab Information Minister Azma Bohari has said that empowering the youth and ensuring their financial independence is one of the top priorities of Chief Minister Maryam Nawaz.

In a statement issued here on Saturday, Azma Bokhari said the CMIT internship program reflects the Chief Minister’s vision to equip the youth with practical skills and create job opportunities in the information technology sector.

She said thousands of young people have already received IT training through the four-month internship programme, with each intern receiving a monthly stipend of Rs50,000 from the Punjab government.

The provincial information minister added that registration for the third phase of the programme is currently underway, providing more graduates with opportunities to acquire professional IT skills and establish sustainable careers. The minister added that the Maryam Nawaz-led government believes in practical results rather than talk.

She emphasized that empowering the youth and making them economically self-reliant is a key part of the vision of a prosperous and prosperous Punjab.

The Royal Islamic Center for Strategic Studies in Jordan has released a list of the 500 most influential people in the Muslim world, with Pakistan’s Prime Minister Shebaz Sharif and Chief of Defense Force Chief of Staff Marshal Asim Munir.

Saudi Arabia’s King Salman bin Abdulaziz and Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman also top the current list. For the first time, five personalities have been jointly selected for the first position in the list.

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan is also among the five most influential figures in the Muslim world, while Iran’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Mojtaba Khamenei is fourth on the list, Jordan’s King Abdullah II is fifth, and Qatar’s Emir Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad Al Thani is sixth. United Arab Emirates President Sheikh Mohamed bin Zayed, Malaysian Prime Minister Anwar Ibrahim and King Mohammed VI of Morocco were also included in the list of influential Muslim figures.

Indonesian President Prabowo Subianto, Egyptian President Abdel Fattah el-Sisi, Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas and Syrian President Ahmed Salad were also on the list. Pakistan’s famous religious scholars Mufti Muhammad Taqi Usmani and Maulana Tariq Jameel are also among the 500 influential people. The list also named Dr Hosam Abu Safiya, the former director of Kamal Adwan Hospital in Gaza, as Person of the Year, and Fatima Zahra Shehbadi, a student who survived an attack on a school in Minab, Iran, as Woman of the Year.

Prime Minister Mohammad Shehbaz Sharif on Saturday lauded the security forces for conducting successful intelligence-based operations against Indian-sponsored Hindustani and Khawarij terrorists in various districts of Balochistan and Khyber Pakhtunkhwa and vowed to continue operations against the militants to neutralize and eliminate them completely.

These effective operations resulted in the killing of eight terrorists, including a suicide bomber, while large quantities of arms and ammunition were seized in Balochistan areas.

Terrorists targeted military vehicles engaged in a patrol using armed quadcopters. The attack resulted in the martyrdom of Major Omer Minhas Nasir, a resident of Chakwal district, and Havildar Muhammad Adnan Khan, who belonged to Kotli Sattian. During Operation Kimberley, 16 militants were killed and two soldiers were killed in crossfire by security forces in various parts of North Waziristan during reconnaissance operations.

ISPR said that Havardar Ismat Ali and Naik Aftab Ali accepted martyrdom in a shootout with militants. The Prime Minister paid tribute to the brave sons of the soil Major Omar Minhas Nasir, Havardar Mohammad Adnan Khan, Havardar Ismat Ali and Naik Aftab Ali who accepted martyrdom.

The Prime Minister said that people across the country are paying their respects to the martyrs who sacrificed their lives forever. “The enemy is maliciously trying to undermine regional peace by targeting innocent civilians and security personnel.

However, our armed forces are fully capable of thwarting all evil intentions of our enemies. “

PM Shehbaz Sharif said, “Operations against externally sponsored terrorism will continue with full force until its complete elimination.”

Operations will continue with full force until the complete elimination of foreign-sponsored terrorism, says the PM