Gov't to digitally empower youth: Ahsan Iqbal.

ISLAMABAD -- Minister for Planning, Development and Special Initiatives Ahsan Iqbal Wednesday said that keeping in view the extra ordinary talent and qualities in the youth of the country, the government was going to digitally empower them by providing 100,000 laptops in the first phase.

Addressing as chief guest at the Artificial Intelligence Summit here at the National Incubation Center (NIC), the minister said the students who do not fall under the laptop scheme due to merit would also be able to get laptops on easy installments through commercial banks.

The minister added that the PML-N government in its previous tenure built the digital National Centers of excellence in automation and robotics in EMI college and with every center, 10-12 engineering universities' laboratories including UET Lahore, UET Peshawar, NED University Karachi were attached.

He said the laptops that were delivered among the youth between 2013-18 brought about revolution as most of them were now...