KARACHI, July 16: The Literate Pakistan Foundation, in collaboration with the Sui Southern Gas Company, has set up 10 adult literacy centres in Lyari.

Free textbooks, prepared under the Jugnoo Sabaq programme, were distributed among the students studying at the centres at a ceremony.

Senior general manager, SSGC, Syed Hassan Nawab, director, Research Department, LPF, and author of "Jugnoo Sabaq" Munir Ahmed Rashid, along with Dr Nazar Kamrani, former regional director, Allama Iqbal Open University, spoke on the occasion. They suggested education ministry to include "Jugnoo Sabaq" book series in the National Literacy Syllabus. -PPI

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