She stated this while addressing the concluding ceremony of a three-day professional training workshop for 31 media students from the universities of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Gilgit-Baltistan and Islamabad here.
Firdous said the country's population consisted of 52 percent women, who were equally contributing to the national development of Pakistan.
"The country's young generation was a valuable asset and it was our responsibility to provide easy venues to help them excel. Pakistanis were the followers of the ideology of state of Madina, they love minorities and respect human rights in the country," she added.
The Pakistani youth should use all media sources, particularly social media to extend solidarity with the Kashmiri youth and women, who were facing curfew for the last 17 days and the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS) extremist mindset had gripped the occupied valley, she said.
Firdous said Pakistan had fought a long war against extremism and terrorism which led to radicalization in the society. There should be a medium to address that social ill, and a responsible media could take that responsibility.
She said the workshop's aim was to provide a direction to the students and interlink the lessons learnt from those practices to tackle with success stories, governance issues and social deterioration in the line with the war against terrorism.