Islamabad: President Asif Ali Zardari has renewed the commitment of government to make education accessible to all.
In his message on World Literacy Day being observed today, he said education has been declared a fundamental right in the Constitution of Pakistan under Article 25-A.
The President highlighted the government’s initiatives to overcome the challenge of illiteracy including the declaration of a National Educational Emergency, to enroll out-of-school children, the Prime Minister’s Roshan Pakistan Literacy Drive, Conditional Cash Transfers up to the higher secondary level through Benazir Taleemi Wazaif and stipends for students in all districts of Pakistan.
The President called for recommitting to the national cause of promoting the universal right to education.
