Paralyze education in Pakistan
(Sameer Ali Domki, SZABIST University, Karachi)
The more education system
of country will be strong the most chances to enhance the economics of the
country because the education system indirectly affects over the situation
of our economics in the development of our country. If we talk about the
Pakistan the education system is too least effective as it should be
developed because we are residing in one of the developing countries of
South Asia.
For a quality and standard education should be adopted in the educational
institutes but unfortunately we are suffering from international standard of
education as there is no rules and laws for education implementing in
Pakistan. We are living in a country that is depended upon its agricultural
resources and production of seasonal corps that is why we should adopt a way
that brings out a most intellectual and brilliant youth generation but it
can be possible only after adopting international educational standard.
There is a VIP class system we are facing in our country that is most
crucial for the common people of our country as it interrupts the minds of
those people who are the low income producers as their children cannot
afford to get admission in the private educational institutes or college and
university level education. There is different lack of resources so that
they can bear for their children for a quality education.
According to an economic survey of 2013-14, a literacy rate in Pakistan is
60% distinguishing with provincial level the literacy rate is 62% in Punjab,
60% in Sindh, 52% in KPK and 44% is in Balochistan. The ratio between male
and female is Male = 67% and Female = 42.
Figure 1: Shows the percentage of literacy rate in Pakistan.
Over 55 years 30% literate
45-55 years 40%
35-45 years 50%
25-35 years 60%
15-25 years 70%
Education in Pakistan consists of 5 levels.
• Primary level is considered as the first level starts from grade one and
end up to five.
• Middle level starts from grade six and end up at grade 8
• High level includes nine and tenth class, leading to the secondary School
certificate SSC.
• Intermediates grades eleven and twelve leading to a Higher Secondary
School Certificate HSC.
• University level programs leads towards graduates and masters degree.
A ranking survey report of Alif Ailaan reveal state of education in Pakistan
second annual education rankings of 146 districts in the country. The second
annual education rankings of 146 districts in the country show that
Islamabad Capital Territory is the best performing region in terms of
overall standards of education, followed by Punjab and Azad Jammu and
Kashmir (AJK). According to the report, unveiled by Alif Ailaan, in terms of
primary schools, the top-scoring districts are mostly from Punjab. In
contrast, the top scoring areas in terms of middle school performance were
nearly all districts from Gilgit-Baltistan and AJK. In the provincial
scores, Sindh had improved its ranking while Khyber Paktunkhwa had slipped a
few places. Fata, unfortunately, remains at the bottom of the list. Under
the ranking system, each province, territory, district and agency is scored
on a scale of 0 to 100. According to Alif Ailaan, data is collated from
various official sources on enrolment, literacy, learning outcomes, gender
ratios and survival rates.