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Up to a million children in Balochistan not getting school education, Supreme Court told
The Supreme Court was told on Monday that up to a million children in Balochistan are not going to school, DawnNewsTV reported.
A three-member bench of the Supreme Court, headed by Chief Justice Mian Saqib Nisar, conducted a hearing on the suo motu notice taken on Balochistan's healthcare, education and water crisis at the Quetta registry today.
During the hearing, Balochistan Health Secretary Noor-ul-Haq Baloch, briefed the chief justice on the dire situation of Balochistan's education system, saying: "Up to 11,000 primary schools in the province lack basic facilities and as many as a million children are not getting a school education."
At this, Justice Nisar remarked that "the situation in Balochistan is even worse than Sindh's."
The CJ grilled Balochistan's secretary health over the poor state of hospitals in the province, questioning why healthcare is such a low-paying profession. "Doctors are being paid Rs24,000 a month, whereas even the Supreme Court driver gets paid Rs35,000," he said.
Justice Nisar directed the health secretary to clear the dues of young doctors. "Why haven't the young doctors been paid yet?" he asked, adding that all the doctors on house jobs should get paid within one week and their valid demands should be met.
The chief justice on Monday had summoned Dr Abdul Malik Baloch and Nawab Sanaullah Zehri — the last two chief ministers of Balochistan — to explain what they did for the improvement of governance in the province during their respective tenures.
The duo wasn't in Quetta on Tuesday and so couldn't appear in court; the chief justice ordered them to appear in Islamabad court on April 30. The case's hearing was adjourned until Wednesday.
The chief justice also addressed lawyers in Quetta registry's bar room, telling them that "his head hangs in shame due to targeted killings of the Hazara community."
"We don't have the privilege to legislate and those who do have it are not legislating," he said during the address.
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He’s a great judge
One child missing education is too many let alone millions? These wadairas, sardars along with the rest of Pakistani politicians always struggle to strengthen their pollical seats and no one cares for the precious future of Pakistan that is supposed to be the number one priority for any nation that wants to win poverty and illiteracy. Poverty and illiteracy are the two twin sister minces that always together and they can only be eliminated through educating our next generation more than building roads and bridges…. I am so sad knowing that every day so many kids are without school …As a nation our future is very dark if this state of our young generation is not changed soon!
The picture of the little girl tells the whole story, the expression on her face - eager to learn.Sadly it is being ignored.
This means almost 90 percentage
All the resources are being looted.
Knowing Baluchistan and living there I can safely say the lack of education is due to lack of desire for learning. Most Baloch and Pathan make money through smuggling. They are in some shape or form connected to smuggling product and unless the borders are secured this problem will continue. You will find five-year-old kids sitting in the shop selling smuggled products making decent money why would the get educated or see value in education. Only the so-called nonlocals strive for schooling in Quetta while the rest of the province public schools are abandoned and teachers are simply collecting salaries. The entire education system is upside down, and nobody is fixing it, and the so-called local don't find value in education.
It is an irony of fate that in this 21st century when other nations have made spectacular strides in making their masses educated, our one million children of this backward part are the country are forced live with the curse of ignorance and illiteracy leading to the suffering of abject poverty which their parent and forefather did too. Had it not been to our CJP intervention, things would have moved the same way as it has been during all these years. A paradoxically incomprehensible statement by those who are destined with the responsibility to provide educational facilities to our school going children, is nothing but to hoodwink those asking reasons for this negligence and inefficiency. One hopes that things are likely to improve one way or the other because it has come to limelight and person like CJP is taking keen interest to alleviate the suffering of children who want to be educated like those in other parts of the country. May be it becomes a dawn for these children after all
Politicians busy making money. They do not have time to serve people of the country.