Pakistan, July 13 -- Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif on Saturday reaffirmed his government's commitment to achieving economic prosperity through long-overdue structural reforms, institutional changes, and a renewed focus on merit-based governance.

"The road is very challenging as there were long overdue reforms, and the structural changes had not taken place in the last many decades," he said while addressing a group of Pakistani students, who are getting education in the world leading educational institutes and selected for government's internship summer scholars programme of Uraan Pakistan.

The prime minister stressed that Pakistan had to undertake these overdue long structural changes, through untiring and long efforts.

At the outset,...