Role of youth in promoting interfaith harmony stressed.

PESHAWAR -- The speakers at a workshop on Friday underscored the youths' role in promoting interfaith relations, constitution, fundamental rights, positive thinking, and career counseling.

Pak Institute for Peace Studies (PIPS) organised the event titled 'youth for interfaith harmony', where young people from merged districts participated, according to a statement.

On the occasion, senior journalist Azaz Syed said the society and the education system in Pakistan drilled biases into the minds of young people.

'These biases may relate to social situations or other ethnic and religious groups, and may shape social behaviours among young people,' he said, adding the youth should learn to recognise what their biases were.

He said biases sometimes gave birth to intolerance or even hatred on the bases of ethnicity or faith, therefore, the youth needed to learn to acknowledge their social and religious biases towards others.

The workshop participants...