Pakistan is the only country in Muslim world to have a nuclear power. It has growing and emerging economy but from recent years it is facing many challenges which have far-reaching ramifications from which Education is the most important issue.

                The picture of illiteracy in Pakistan is very grim. Official statistics released by the Federal Education Ministry of Pakistan, the overall literacy rate in Pakistan is 46 percent from which the rate for the girls and woman is 12 percent. There are 163,000 primary schools in Pakistan, of which merely 40,000 are for the girls. The situation is especially worse in rural areas due to some due to some social and cultural obstacles which is surely a devastation for the nation.

                If we look upon the education on basic level (Primary, Elementary and Secondary) we will face a horrible and obscure situation. I have my personal experience; I’ve studied in a government school in a rural area. When I was in primary school, there was no such education or studies there except for the teachers own work. Teachers were using students for their personal work. Their routine work was just to come to the school, gossip with each other and that’s all of the day. The situation was similar for the metric level except for two or three things. We had no qualified teachers for our science subjects there. We have no mind set on that level for further education, even I was in the midst between “The end” and “To be continue”. These practices are still followed in rural areas of Pakistan by traditional teachers, and the government is silent.

                Now if we came to the higher secondary level, there I observed another thing that there are many private academies for teaching students at intermediate level. These academies are either made by a third party or your college teacher is involved there. I personally observed that thing that a teacher who teach you in a government college also teach in an academy and he do not put that effort in his lecture in college which he put in academy. Even many teachers offer you, if you want to better understanding than come and join my academy. We can clearly see the business behind the name of education. This thing can also be observable on schools level, we can see many private schools. The higher education has also a big issue in Pakistan. Engineering and medical institute are very less in count and students are more, merit become high and high each and every year. Government universities are very less in number as compared to the private sector, this thing effects very badly so that some people couldn’t afford higher education. If the situation remains the same than in near future a huge group of youngsters will not be able to complete their education. 

                Problems can be mitigate if our government take serious action against them. The government as well as the people both has to do efforts for the solution. The government should take action against unserious people, it should provide qualified teachers and keep an eye on check and balance phase. At higher level government should build more institutes. Education should be promoted in rural and backward areas of the country and all necessities should be provided.