Promoting Education: The Panacea for All Our Ills

(Editorial November 2016) - Jahangir's World Times

Jun 24 2017 Highlights with LINER

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Promoting Education: The Panacea for All Our Ills

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Pakistan is often referred to as a country that is rich in natural resources but poor in their
management. The nature has blessed the country with abounding reserves of these resources,
ranging from abundant natural gas to copious oil deposits, from precious minerals to fertile
lands, and what not? But, what perplexes a sane mind the most is: why Pakistan is still ranked
among poor countries? Have we ever chewed over the question why our country is always at
the bottom of many of worlds importance indices? Why in spite of being an agricultural country,
our position on the 2016 Global Hunger Index has been 108th out of 118 countries? Why we
persistently occupy shameful rankings on Corruption Perception Index every year?

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utter failure in prioritizing education.

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Pakistan in the name of a religion

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iteracy rate still hovers around sixty percent

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Pakistanis who have made us proud. Pakistan takes pride in producing the celebrated talent like
Dr Abdus Salam who won Nobel Prize in Physics (1979), Dr Mehboobul Haq devised the
Human Development Index, which has become one of the most influential and widely used
indices to measure human development across countries, and more recently, Dr Naweed I.
Syed (a globally acclaimed scientist), Dr Nergis Mavalvala (gravitational waves fame), Ali
Moeen Nawazish (who set a record of acing 23 subjects in the O-Level), Naiza Khan (recipient
of the 2013 Prince Claus award), Rajinish Aneel Bhatia (gold medallist in international math
competition, Math Challenge V), Abu Hifs (secured first position in international Mathematics
competition held by an Australian university) and the one we can never forget, Arfa Karim
(Late), who, at the age of nine, became the youngest Microsoft Certified Professional (MCP).
These are only some names from the long list of great Pakistani talent.

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sheer negligence and ineptness on the part of those who occupy high offices

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But, years of hard work they had put in was recently exposed by the United Nations Global
Education Monitoring Report 2016 which said that Pakistan is 50+ years behind in its primary
and 60+ years behind in its secondary education targets.

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These falling standards call for amelioration of policies in order to tailor them according to the
modern-day needs. And for this, the most pivotal role is that of the Higher Education
Commission (HEC). Instead of concentrating on increasing the number of PhDs, the HEC
should direct all its efforts to improving educational standards.
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