"IDPs Will Also get LAPTOPs" Shahbaz Sharif

[mr42O]

The Punjab government is mulling over ‘technologically equipping’ displaced students from North Waziristan by providing them with laptops, Pakistan Today has learnt.

According to sources, officials of the Higher Education Department are deliberating over the proposal, which will soon be submitted to Punjab Chief Minister Shahbaz Sharif for approval.

The federal government has already announced the provision of 100,000 laptops to talented students under the Prime Minister’s Youth Programme while the Punjab government will distribute an additional 25,000 laptops to deserving students.

During its previous tenure, the Punjab government had announced the provision of laptops to university students but this year, laptops will be given even to matriculation students. The Higher Education Department has already started coordination with the educational institutions concerned in this regard.

According to sources, the plan to distribute laptops among NWA IDPs is also being discussed. “There may be a separate announcement by the Punjab CM for distribution of laptops to students among the IDPs or a quota may be reserved for the IDPs in the already decided pool; whichever the CM may approve,” the source said.

According to FATA Disaster Management Authority (FDMA), the number of IDPs has reached 750,000, so far.

It is uncertain as to how many students are enlisted as IDPs but a senior official said that gathering the data is very easy. “Those who are interested in getting the laptop will submit an application and the government will get the record from the educational institutions concerned,” the official said.

Meanwhile, Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf Central Information Secretary Shireen Mazari has said that the distribution of laptops among the IDPs would be “ridiculous” as the IDPs are presently deprived of even the basic necessities of life.

“The government should focus on complete and smooth provision of electricity to the IDPs instead of considering the distribution of laptops to them,” said Mazari added.

Talking to Pakistan Today, Punjab Higher Education Secretary Abdullah Sumbal said that the government is presently planning to set up mobile colleges and summer camps for the IDPs, “which is more important than the distribution of laptops to them”.

Speaking to Pakistan Today, Punjab Finance Minister Mujtaba Shujaur Rehman said that the provision of laptops to IDPs is just a proposal and will be forwarded to the finance department only after the CM’s approval.

“The finance department’s job is only to make releases,” he said.

Now IDPs will also get laptops! | Pakistan Today

 

[SQ8]

Soon to be seen being sold on carts in Bara market Peshawar..
What exactly will the people lacking basic facilities be doing with laptops?

On the flipside, maybe this is a very positive idea(along with making more money on the commissions in laptops).
It will allow these people greater exposure to the outside world and help them communicate with loved ones working in cities elsewhere.. even those toiling in the middle east.

 

[Proudpakistaniguy]

Soon to be seen being sold on carts in Bara market Peshawar..
What exactly will the people lacking basic facilities be doing with laptops?

Its stupid idea but they can sell it to earn some cash because thast what they need right now..at least something coming from pocket of these leaders

 

[Luftwaffe]

So they are going to plug in their laptop chargers into their tents? any sockets in there? with no Electricity or when they go back to their Native places they have almost no Electricity.

Last time shabaz awarded fake dell laptops with pirated copy of Windows 7 and many had no windows but free Ubuntu.

 

[mr42O]

After laptop he will build flyover

 

[WishLivePak]

Laptops? They need schools, hospitals. What will laptops do? Do they even have good internet, if at all?

Probably happy commision on laptops. Even if laptop is a $100, that $100 can be used to buy food for a month! Now decide for yourself, would you've a laptop or eat stomach full for a month?

 

[SekrutYakhni]

Soon to be seen being sold on carts in Bara market Peshawar..
What exactly will the people lacking basic facilities be doing with laptops?

On the flipside, maybe this is a very positive idea(along with making more money on the commissions in laptops).
It will allow these people greater exposure to the outside world and help them communicate with loved ones working in cities elsewhere.. even those toiling in the middle east.

Well I think this is a great idea. Considering the fact that the laptops have to be charged periodically and the electricity shortage we have...I think Khadem A Aala has done a great job here.

We don't need health, education, peace, employment and so on...We need a laptop.

 

[Menace2Society]

Laptops? They need schools, hospitals. What will laptops do? Do they even have good internet, if at all?

Probably happy commision on laptops. Even if laptop is a $100, that $100 can be used to buy food for a month! Now decide for yourself, would you've a laptop or eat stomach full for a month?

They will get all that too you idiot.

As soon as they are done with terrorist ball licking they will get what you've mentioned. This is an extra.

 

[SekrutYakhni]

I really used to think that takla brothers were somewhat smart. But for real - Rising above who I like....I really think these two are nut cases.

Like for real - I am being neutral here.

They are indeed nut cases.

 

[Proudpakistaniguy]

Laptops? They need schools, hospitals. What will laptops do? Do they even have good internet, if at all?

Probably happy commision on laptops. Even if laptop is a $100, that $100 can be used to buy food for a month! Now decide for yourself, would you've a laptop or eat stomach full for a month?

They actually need cash more than anything else ..everything can be buy with money

 

[WishLivePak]

They will get all that too you idiot.

As soon as they are done with terrorist ball licking they will get what you've mentioned. This is an extra.

I'm an idiot? Please stop sleeping under the umberella of your thoughts.

They need money more than anything RIGHT NOW. Even when they return, they'd need money more than ever. They don't have proper schools or hospitals, or internet, and here we're giving laptops. (@mughal arslan shah mirza oh look, I said "We're")

Thanks to people like you that Pakistan can't progress. People want food, you give them laptop. People are starving in Sindh, you give them festival. The list can go on and on.


Prioritize what people actually need then to say 'look, i gave free laptops!'

 

[Progressive1]

talented students should be given laptops like in Punjab.

 

[Jazzbot]

This chota ganja has taken stupidity and idiocy to a whole new level, congratz N-Leaguers @hasnain0099 @cb4 @Muhammad Omar @arushbhai @Fracker @Tameem

Those IDPs have no electricity in their camps, no gas, no food, no cloths, no clean water, no sanitation, no heathcare, no medicines etc.. And this nut case wants to give them laptop. Do they even have internet available to them in those IDP camps? What they are gonna use these laptops for?

What is next from Showbaz? A flyover right through the IDP camps?

 

[WishLivePak]

They actually need cash more than anything else ..everything can be buy with money

The gov't here in west gives money to student, a monthly small allowance. They could give free laptops or books, but instead they give money. Because I know I need X more than laptops. I know that I will buy a used laptop cheaper and use rest money to buy something else.

Also laptop is a luxury. First have a computer room at school. Instead of giving 500 laptops, make a school with a computer lab. Even 25 computers will do the trick. Same is the case at my previous schools. Have computer labs instead of free laptop drive. Although I'll be honest, they started giving small netbooks to replace textbooks (books are free by gov't, so in essence, they're saving money). Plus they've city wide wifi, which tribal regions do not. And books are cheaper in Pakistan than here. At my post secondary, i've paid thousands of dollars for my text books

And you do 2 things at the cost of one. But of course, we've kept ourselves blind.

This chota ganja has taken stupidity and idiocy to a whole new level, congratz N-Leaguers @hasnain0099 @cb4 @Muhammad Omar @arushbhai @Fracker @Tameem

Those IDPs have no electricity in their camps, no gas, no food, no cloths, no clean water, no sanitation, no heathcare, no medicines etc.. And this nut case wants to give them laptop. Do they even have internet available to them in those IDP camps? What they are gonna use these laptops for?

What is next from Showbaz? A flyover right through the IDP camps?

A person who thinks anyone disagreeing with PMLn policy is an idiot, once implied: We'll give them food, once they starve.

 

[Proudpakistaniguy]

The gov't here in west gives money to student, a monthly small allowance. They could give free laptops or books, but instead they give money. Because I know I need X more than laptops. I know that I will buy a used laptop cheaper and use rest money to buy something else.

Also laptop is a luxury. First have a computer room at school. Instead of giving 500 laptops, make a school with a computer lab. Even 25 computers will do the trick. Same is the case at my previous schools. Have computer labs instead of free laptop drive. Although I'll be honest, they started giving small netbooks to replace textbooks (books are free by gov't, so in essence, they're saving money). Plus they've city wide wifi, which tribal regions do not.

And you do 2 things at the cost of one. But of course, we've kept ourselves blind.


A person who thinks anyone disagreeing with PMLn policy is an idiot, once implied: We'll give them food, once they starve.

I understand and completely agree with what you are saying and its quiet illogical step to distribute laptops to those people who dont even have proper place to live and proper food and clean water. What i am saying is that something is better than nothing...Electronics can be sold for money