Over 55 million people in Pakistan are illiterate, according to United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO).
The number of uneducated people in Pakistan has mounted to over 55 million and counting.
Over 41 per cent people have never attended school in Pakistan, and over two-third of the female population has no idea about education in pakistan.
Pakistan needs to concentrate on education and human capital if it really wishes for economic growth.
It was also pointed out during the conference that the lowest literacy rate in Pakistan was recorded in Balochistan, where the pakistan Army is carrying out a brutal and systematic campaign of genocide & deprivation against the Baloch freedom fighters, opposing the pakistani occupation of their land - 45 per cent- while the literacy rate in Punjab and Sindh was 59 per cent and 50 per cent in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa.
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