Dawn – Staff Writer
“Pakistan is passing through a phase of “educational poverty” because of a lack of government commitment to the education sector and the Education for All goal. Pakistan is still grappling with around 55 per cent of literacy rate and it needs at least 38 years to achieve the Universal Primary Education and 16 years to achieve 86 per cent of literacy rate, Unesco’s senior education specialist Arshad Saeed Khan said during his presentation to the print and electronic media at a “Media Forum for the Promotion of Literacy in Pakistan.”(more)