RECORDER REPORT

LAHORE: Slamming the ransacking and destroying of schools in Chilas, the interim Chief Minister Punjab, Dr Hasan Askari said that such nefarious acts cannot stop the daughters of the nation to study.

“Those who are trying to spread fear and panic in the people through such transgressions are an atrocious enemy of national development and prosperity,” he said, adding: “Criminal offences aimed at depriving the girls to study tantamount to sheer ignorance and fanaticism.”

He also said, “It is very essential to light the candle of knowledge everywhere to fearlessly counter extremism as it can only be defeated through an emphatic light of knowledge in the society. We will have to defeat the conspiracies of anti-social elements trying to make the nation a hostage of the darkness of ignorance with our commitment and passion.”

Moreover, Dr Hasan Askari, in his message on the eve of “Police Martyrs Day,” paid rich tributes to the police martyrs who have sacrificed their precious lives for the protection of life and property of the people.