PhD degree holders to teach primary students if JI comes to power: Siraj

Jamaat-i-Islami chief Sirajul Haq on Wednesday said PhD teachers would be appointed to all primary schools across the country if the people elected his party to power through the next general elections.

He gave the party’s next manifesto titled ‘Prosperous Pakistan and Islamic Pakistan’ at the Talent Award Festival. It was attended by large number of students and workers of Islami Jamiat Talba, student wing of JI.

Sirajul Haq said high illiteracy rate was a major issue in Pakistan. He said existing standard of education was poor and this was big dilemma that children of ministers of education in the four provinces did not send their children to the government run schools.

He said public sector schools had no basic facilities like drinking water and toilets because children of rich families did not get education in these schools and standard of education was deteriorating day by day.

Sirajul Haq said religious education had been divided on the basis of sects and every sect had its own board that was major cause of sectarianism.

He demanded of the federal and provincial governments to allocate major share in the next annual budgets for education after defence and security.

According to the manifesto, children of the poorer will get free education and all citizens would be provided free treatment. The government would treat patients suffering from at least five diseases including cancer, cardiac, kidney, hepatitis and thalassemia free of cost.

Under the Prosperous Pakistan programme, Sirajul Haq said educated youngsters would get unemployment allowance until they got job while people of 70 years and above would receive old age allowance in order they could live with dignity.

He said Pakistanis were very talented, but corrupt people looted Rs 4 trillion every year as a result the country could not make progress socially and economically.