Pakistan's education system has long suffered from a chronic absence of structured career counselling, forcing students to make life-altering academic choices at the tender age of 14 or 15, often based on parental pressure, peer influence or sheer guesswork. Against this backdrop, the Inter Board Coordination Commission's decision to allow matriculation Arts students to transition into Pre-Medical and Pre-Engineering streams is, on the face of it, a progressive correction to an inflexible system that has........

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