PESHAWAR, April 12: District Nazim Peshawar, Azam Afridi has underscored the need for diverting more attention towards the promotion of IT education to make Pakistan self-sufficient.

He was addressing here at a ceremony at the government high school No.1 Peshawar City, held in connection with the international week “Education for All” on Saturday.

MPA Dr Zakir Shah and the EDO education Ayaz Khan also spoke on the occasion.

Azam Afridi said that “our religion Islam put great emphasis on equipping ourselves with both religious and modern traditional education so that we could cope with challenges of the current era wherein a nation without the state-of-the-art technical and scientific education skills could not survive at all.”

He termed ignorance and illiteracy as the matters responsible for the present humiliation of the Muslim Ummah.

He told that the district government attached great importance to the promotion of education sector and handsome amounts had been allocated for provision of various facilities to the students and teaching staff in the public sector schools.

The district Nazim urged the high-ups of the department to observe strict merit in the admission as well as examinations and other administrative affairs, as the district government believed in non interference in the internal affairs of the government department, so that they could run their offices as per the rules and regulations.

Earlier, speaking on the occasion, Dr Zakir Shah MPA said that the MMA government in the province were taking all necessary steps to enhance literacy ratio in the province and the introduction of free education upto matric level was the ample proof of this endeavour.

He said efforts were underway to introduce positive reforms in the education department so that our young generation could be equipped with science and technology.—APP