Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif Thursday said that the incumbent government was striving to protect future generations from the unhealthy habit of smoking as a smoke-free Pakistan was among its priorities.

The prime minister, in a meeting with CEO of Chromatic Shariq Khan, lauded the services of the organisation for elimination of smoking in the country.

Shariq Khan apprised the prime minister of his firm’s anti-smoking campaign as well as the Tobacco Control Alliance for Pakistan.

He said that being held in cooperation with Bloomberg Philanthropies, the campaign was aimed at assisting the government to eliminate smoking from the country.

Special assistants to prime minister Tariq Fatem and Tariq Pasha and relevant senior officers attended the meeting.