SIALKOT: Ameer Jamat-e-Islami and Senator Sirajul Haq on Sunday stressed the need for equal educational opportunities to the children of all segments of society.

Addressing a ceremony of 'Genius of Sialkot' here at Allama Iqbal Auditorium, he said due to lack of educational opportunities, the children of poor people were forced to scavenge food items from garbage.

He said the major problem of the country was wrong distribution of natural resources and 60 percent cultivated land still existed as barren.

He said that imposition of Islamic System in the county was solution to all problems including unemployment and poverty etc.

Ameer Jamat-e-Islami Punjab, Ameerul Azeem, Secretary General, JI Youth Wing, Mian Usman Javed and others were also present on the occasion.