Re: 2007 sees improvement in education sector
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/new…cle3108124.ece
**The second big issue facing the country is its desperate educational crisis. No problem in Pakistan casts a longer shadow over its future than the abject failure of the government to educate more than a fraction of its own people: a mere 1.8% of Pakistan’s GDP is spent on government schools. This education gap is the most striking way in which Pakistan is lagging behind India, where more than 65% of the population is literate with the number rising every year. Only last year the Indian education system received a substantial boost from state funds; and there is a long tradition among Hindus of making sacrifices to educate children.
** In Pakistan the literacy figure is 49% and falling. The virtual collapse of government schooling means many of the poorest people have no option but to place the children in madrasahs. Though the link between these establishments and Al-Qaeda is exaggerated, it is true that madrasah students have been closely involved both in the rise of the Taliban and the growth of sectarian violence.