Pakistan is one of the few countries where ba­sic sectors such as food, health and education are rife with destitution and no one is paying atten­tion to it. If we focus solely on education, as per the statis­tics of five years ago, the number of chil­dren out of school was around 22 million, while now it has exceeded 26 million. This situation is a matter of con­cern for the federal and provin­cial governments, especially for those political parties who, be­fore coming to power, raised the slogan of making education public, claim to provide free health and education across the country and promised employ­ment to the unemployed edu­cated youth. Still, after coming to power, they do nothing and all the claims are left in the heap.

Every developed country in the world perceives the impor­tance of education. Free edu­cation is mandatory in public schools, and it is compulsory to bring children to school, but in Pakistan, no special atten­tion is paid to this; promises and claims are made here, but the reality is quite the opposite; nothing is spent on education in the budget, nor are children brought to school for education. According to a report prepared by the Pakistan Institute of Ed­ucation, a subsidiary of the Fed­eral Ministry of Education, in collaboration with UNESCO, 11 million children in Punjab, 7.6 million in Sindh, 3.6 million in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa and 3.13 million in Balochistan while 80,000 children in the federal capital Islamabad are........

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