RECENTLY, opposition leader in the National Assembly Khursheed Shah said if anybody wanted to see development, he should visit Sindh. His statement is simply hilarious.

Sindh is underdeveloped and backward. Out of 47,557, nearly 5,000 schools have been closed as they were not functional. There are thousands of schools without boundary walls, while hundreds have no washrooms.

A large number of schools are deprived of clean drinking water.

Of all government schools, almost 75 per cent have no playground and 98pc have no laboratories. Besides, a large number of schools do not have libraries.

If such are the conditions in the education sector, one can easily imagine the state of Sindh. Our leaders should not make such misleading statements.

Aamina Urooj

Islamabad

Published in Dawn, May 26th, 2018

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