Social media: 'Youth should foster positive image of Pakistan'

Provincial Minister for Human Rights and Minorities Affairs Khalil Tahir Sandhu has said that social media is the most effective communication tool used by young generation to foster positive change in society by engaging the Pakistani interfaith communities for promoting sustainable peace and security in the country.
The minister stated this while addressing an introductory seminar regarding 'Engaging Pakistani Interfaith Communities (EPIC)' for peace and security, a project of an NGO 'Faces of Pakistan' and Netherlands to be launched next week and adopted by Kinnaird College for Women.
Kinnaird College for Women Principal Dr Rukhsana David, President 'Faces of Pakistan' Javed William, Secretary General Elaine Alam, International Human Rights activists Rafia Alam and Aron Kumar along with college students and teachers were present on this occasion. The participants of the seminar paid gratitude to the sacrifices of martyrs of recent bomb blasts and observed silence for one minute.
Minister Khalil Tahir Sandhu said that social media networks including Facebook, Twitter, Instagram and YouTube have brought societal changes in the world empowering people to unite, fighting corruption and ills of society including extremism and terrorism.