Students across country to get 500,000 Chromebooks over 2 years, announces PM Shehbaz

Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif announced on Sunday that the government would distribute 500,000 Chromebook laptops to students nationwide over two years. He said this at the launch ceremony of the Prime Minister’s Youth Chromebook Scheme in Islamabad. At the outset of his address, the premier stressed that it was his duty and the state’s “collective responsibility” to provide the youth with modern technology, so they could become “the great builders of Pakistan”. “Our boys and girls [..] are the true assets of Pakistan,” the prime minister remarked. He added that the Chromebooks were being…