Pakistan tops the list of 21 developing countries as being one where budget allocation for defence exceeds spending on primary education, according to a UN agency UNESCO.
A local representative of UNESCO, Arshad Khan, revealed this during an address to media forum on the topic of ‘Education in Pakistan’.
“The number of uneducated people in Pakistan has mounted to over 55 million and counting, ” he feared.
The Millennium Development Goals (DMG)s’ education-related targets seem difficult to have been achieved by 2015 given the incompetence and non-seriousness of the prevailing government, he informed attendees.
Over 41 per cent people have never attended school while over two-third female population have no idea about education, he said.
On the occasion, Secretary Education Lateef Tahir vowed that the education ratio in capital city of Islamabad would be raised up to 100 per cent.
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