In Quetta, Balochistan's Governor Jaffar Khan Mandokhail met with a delegation of young people to articulate a vision that many provinces have promised but few have delivered: that merit, not patronage, must govern opportunity. Drawing on his experience at a Youth and Artificial Intelligence Summit at the United Nations in New York, Mandokhail positioned Balochistan's youth not as a problem to be managed but as partners already capable of contributing — if the systems around them are made worthy of their effort. The province is now attempting to translate that conviction into practical program