"When the PPP took power in 2008, Sindh's literacy rate stood at roughly 58 per cent. The Pakistan Economic Survey 2024–25 reports it at 57.54 per cent—fractionally lower after eighteen years and trillions in education budgets. Nearly half of Sindh's children remain out of school. By 2024, only 39 per cent of Grade 3 students could read a simple story. Two-thirds leave primary school unable to read a paragraph.
How is this possible after an education budget that grew from Rs 111 billion in 2012–13 to Rs 405 billion in 2024–25? Because the money never reached classrooms. In 2023, it emerged that 56,000 teachers in Sindh attended school only once or twice a month. The province has an estimated 7,000 ghost schools—buildings on the government's books, empty in practice, their headmasters existing as line items in a patronage ledger." https://t.co/c2jOUJbtud