Fake degree-holders cannot change country’s future, says Imran Khan

It is imprudent to expect fake degree-holders to improve the deplorable situation in the country, Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf Chairman Imran Khan said on Wednesday. Imran spelt out his party’s education emergency policy, which pledges to introduce a uniform and free education system for all. “The PTI will aim to eradicate the difference in the standard of facilities for the rich and poor and vows to introduce one curriculum for all,” Imran said. He said one of the main reasons why “we as a nation stand at a juncture where more than 50 percent of our population is illiterate is that none of the previous governments, who have come into power time and again, have been able to implement Quaid-e-Azam’s vision for an educated Pakistan”. Imran said the government in its entire tenure had not paid any heed towards the education sector “rather have successfully managed to completely destroy it”. He emphasised that the PTI considered education to be a critical subject and a pre-requisite for improving the deteriorating plight of the country, adding that the party would recover looted money from the corrupt politicians, who sometimes in the name of Daanish Schools and sometimes under the head of laptop and solar energy schemes, had emptied the national exchequer. “This recovered money will be diverted towards the education sector,” Imran said. The PTI chief said the ground realities were that more than 40 percent of government-run schools lacked basic structure and facilities. “Those who have spent around Rs 800 million in erecting a ‘Taj Mahal’ for just one Daanish School, have completely ignored the provision of basic problems being faced by the sector.” Imran said the PTI’s education policy aimed at educating the entire population at a uniform level with also providing opportunities to excel further in their careers. “If these incompetent rulers continue to run the country in the same manner, the millennium goal of achieving a 100 percent literacy rate in 2015 will not be achieved until 2025.”