KARACHI, Jan 5: The establishment of the Aga Khan University Board is a US agenda, which will give rise to a class-based educational system.

The government's anti-educational policies are restraining poor students from getting quality education, said former mayor Karachi and MNA of the Muttahida Majlis-i-Amal (MMA), Abdul Sattar Afghani, on Wednesday while inaugurating the second-day of the Hafta-i-Kutub (Books week) organized by the Islami Jamiat Talaba (IJT) at Jamia Masjid Khizra.

"The government has always contrived policies for the two per cent privileged class of the country. The education sector in the country needs special attention, and needs to be reformed," he said. He said that IJT's pro-educational activities were the only way to provide indigent students their right of attaining knowledge, he said.

He urged the government to promote education and take measures for bringing education within the easy reach of poor students. The Nazim IJT Karachi, Syed Tahir Akbar, speaking on the occasion, termed instituting the AKUB as an "attack on the country's ideological foundations."

He demanded the government to withdraw the decision of constituting the AKUB and to bring the country's educational system in line with the ideology of Pakistan. -PPI