Khyber Pakhtunkhwa has some of the Pakistan’s largest gender disparities in education. With the exception of a few urban cities, young girls are less likely to enter the schools and more likely to drop out at primary level, leaving only a few that make it through the secondary schools. This limited access to female learning
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Recently, the Sri Lankan president announced allotment of land for 100,000 victims of the three-decade-long civil war that the country was mired in. In this regard, the internally-displaced persons of Sri Lanka will be given land through an apparatus that has been set up for this purpose. In contrast, in Pakistan there is discrepancy in
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IN the wake of the horrific Peshawar school attack, the government of Pakistan has resumed executions, ending a six-year ban, and established military courts. But there has been comparatively little talk of how the losses suffered by the victims of the attack will be addressed. The prime minister’s initial pledge to provide compensation was welcome,
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ENTER a school and within 10-15 minutes you can tell if it works or not — whether it is an exciting place where children learn and are keen to learn or if it’s just a space where children and teachers park themselves to spend five to six hours a day because they are required to.
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Rabia is 9 years old – a short, bubbly, full-of-life child. She is the daughter of Rukhsana, our domestic help. Rukhsana brings Rabia along every day, and in most houses, she goes about cleaning floors, wiping counters, and washing dishes. In our house, my mother sits her to one side, and teaches her basic Urdu,
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With 25 million out-of-school children, this crisis hides in plain sight There is a small group of children, little girls, not younger than four, not older than nine that hassle drivers at the various stop signs in and around the F11 Markaz in Islamabad. Two weeks ago, one of these children approached me, and offered
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Mosharraf Zaidi barrels his Honda City down Jinnah Highway on this spectacularly hot summer afternoon. His passenger, one Dr. Nadeem ul Haque, is late for a meeting at Islamabad Club. Zaidi serves as the Campaign Director for Alif Ailaan, a project funded by the United Kingdom’s Department for International Development. Zaidi believes the education crisis
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