PESHAWAR, July 19: Tanzeem-i-Asaatiza Pakistan is holding a three-day 'national education conference' from July 24 in Mingora, Swat, to raise awareness level of teachers regarding their duties.

Speaking at a news conference here at the Peshawar Press Club on Monday, the association's secretary-general Prof Hussain Ahmad Malik said that it had become imperative for teachers to keep themselves abreast with national and international scenarios.

In this connection, a three-day conference has been arranged from July 24 at Jehanzeb Postgraduate Government College, Mingora Swat, he said. Noted scholars and politicians have confirmed their participation in the moot.

"In the wake of US onslaught against Islam and our education system, it has become obligatory upon teachers to defend local education system," he said and added that teachers were the real guides of the people, but they needed to upgrade their knowledge base.

His organization, he said, had been organizing seminars and conferences in the country to apprise the teaching community of developments taking place around the globe in the realm of education.

The organization had been in the forefront of opposing changes in the education syllabus, he said, adding that "we would put up stiff resistance to any threat posed by the government to the local education system."