Pakistan lags behind Nepal in women’s education sector

KARACHI - Pakistan has allocated only 2.3 per cent of its total budget for education sector in the newly announced budget which is even 0.3 per cent lesser than its allocation in 1999.Nine per cent of government spending is on education, placing Pakistan at 113th position amongst 120 countries on the Education Development Index. This was stated by Ismail Bawany, Trustee of Aisha Bawany Academy here on Friday. He said that according to global monitoring survey, Pakistan spends seven times more

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