ISLAMABAD, Sept 8: Pakistan is observing International Literacy Day on Monday with a pledge to achieve the target of 100 per cent adult literacy by 2015, the target set at World Education Forum, Dakkar, Senegal, in April 2000.
According to figures released by the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization on the eve of the day, literacy rate in
the country among those aged 15 years and above has been envisaged at 47.4 per cent by 2005.
The figures show that the country will have to wait till 2007 to cross the 50 per cent mark if the present pace continues.
Women’s literacy rate is around 40 per cent less than men’s.—APP
