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SIALKOT: Federal Minister for Water and Power Khawaja Muhammad Asif on Sunday has stressed upon the younger generation to forge unity among their ranks for edging out fast growing intolerance in the society.

Addressing the laptop distribution ceremony at University of Gujrat Sialkot Sub Campus, he said that youth should concentrate on spreading the message of peace, tolerance, brotherhood and love among the masses for creating healthy society in accordance to the Islamic tenants adding that Islam is a religion of brotherhood, tolerance and love.

Education is a vital instrument for curbing intolerance and extremism. The younger generation should concentrate their attention on getting good education with zeal and enthusiastically work for bringing revolutionary changes in every sphere of life and they should protect the educational institutions from the virus of extremism, he said.

Asif said that education is the key instrument for bringing social change in a society. He said to weed out the menace of extremism and terrorism from the country student community should fulfill its responsibility in disseminating the message of peace and love.

The Minister further stated that the incident of lynching of a student at AWK University Mardan had earned a bad name to Pakistan and Western media is criticizing and daubing Muslims as extremists. He was of the opinion that such incidents were due to the lack of character building at our educational institutions and extremists are exploiting this for their personal gains.

The Minister on this occasion urged upon the teacher community that they should pay special attention on character building of the students for promotion of healthy environment in the educational Institutions and for bringing radical change in the mindset of the society.

Later, the Minister distributed laptops among the students.