A school should be the last place where parents fear for their children's lives. Yet the deaths of 31 students and a teacher in Peshawar's Al-Khair School roof collapse is an incident that should spring authorities into action. In a country where educational institutions are expected to shape the future, even the most basic guarantee of physical safety remains uncertain.

The tragedy reflects a wider culture of negligence in which structural safety is overlooked until a building collapses and innocent lives are lost. That an apparently........

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