Economist – Staff Writer
“It is an attempt to tackle one of Pakistan’s worst problems: the huge number of children who receive no education at all. One-tenth of the world’s primary-age children who are not in school live in Pakistan—7m of them, thanks to a net enrolment rate (after allowing for dropouts) of just 57%. According to UNICEF, the United Nations’ children’s agency, 30% of Pakistanis have received less than two years’ education.”(more)