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In a bid to boost the country's IT industry, Pakistan's ruling party is setting up an IT city in the country's eastern Punjab province, the Nation reports.
"If we want to progress among the comity of nations, we will have to encourage the creative abilities among our youth," Punjab Chief Minister Maryam Nawaz Sharif said in a message on the country's "Creativity and Innovation Day."
The chief minister said that education plays a fundamental role in the creative abilities of the youth, the Economic Times reports.
The chief minister said that the IT city would not only generate employment opportunities but would also promote creative abilities among the youth.
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