AN enlightened education is the panacea for all ills. Pakistan also has to tread this path, and this has become all the more necessary with CPEC set to materialise. A good university education is essential if Pakistan is to reap benefits.

The Higher Education Commission has rendered yeoman service but more need to be done. It should provide monetary is facilities to deserving students. The governments of Balochistan and Gilgit-Baltistan should be facilitated on setting up more engineering universities to cater to the enhanced need for diversified skills. In the existing universities in other provinces, engineering education should be improved.

M. Saleem Ansari
Karachi

Published in Dawn, April 20th, 2018