Lahore, 20th August: Millions of Pakistani youth will be unemployed in the next three to six months due to the COVID-19 pandemic. According to Baaghi TV, around 3.7 million Pakistani youth are likely to be unemployed in the next three to six months because of the COVID-19 crisis. https://www.instagram.com/p/CEE4JS0pdsX/?utm_source=ig_web_copy_link The Asian Development Bank (ADB) has predicted in a recent report on youth employment, that almost 3.7 million Pakistani youth can remain unemployed for a period of six months or less owing to the global pandemic. Kamyab Jawan Programme to Create 50,000 Jobs through Rs 5 billion of Loans: Usman Dar The ADB report, ‘Tackling the COVID-19 Youth Employment Crisis in Asia and the Pacific’, says that the youth of Pakistan and 13 other countries in Asia will experience a rise in unemployment. Some of the other countries included are Indonesia, Japan, Malaysia, and Vietnam. Hong Kong and China will encounter the largest surge in unemployment. Altogether 10 to 15 million youth of these 13 countries can end up jobless. The report says Pakistan’s 1.5 million youth are likely to be unemployed in the next three months and 2.258 million youth in the next six months. Promotion of construction, SMEs sectors … Continue reading Millions of youth will be unemployed in the next 6 months