PDP Chief Slams Neglect of Teachers and Systemic Corruption in Pakistan

KARACHI As the world celebrates transnational preceptors’ Day, Pasban Democratic Party( PDP) Chairman Altaf Shakoor has drawn sharp attention to the grim reality of Pakistan’s education system. Calling education the “ utmost neglected sector ” in the country, he blamed the government for its uninterrupted casualness for preceptors’ weal and institutional decay.

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Shakoor stressed that while other nations recognize their preceptors with respect and bettered installations, Pakistan’s preceptors are out on the thoroughfares demanding introductory rights like hires and pensions. He refocused to recent demurrers in Sindh, where thousands of preceptors were forced to shut down seminaries for several days in response to new payment and pension schemes assessed by the government.

The PDP president expressed grave concern over the plight of retired preceptors, especially those from Karachi University. “ further than a dozen retired professors from Karachi University have passed away without entering their due pensions, ” he said. “ This is n’t just mismanagement it’s atrocity against those who spent their lives erecting the nation’s future. ”

He indicted the Karachi University administration, including the vice chancellor, of failing to guard the rights of faculty and staff, claiming that “ the formerly prestigious institution now stands ruined by negligence and corruption. ”

Shakoor further condemned the growing commercialization of education in the private sector. He noted that numerous private seminaries, operating on plots firstly reserved for public education, are charging extravagant freights, turning education into a profit- making enterprise. “ It’s sheer injustice to preceptors, scholars, and parents, ” he remarked, citing the illustration of the Adamjee Nagar and Kathiawar Memon Housing Societies in Karachi, where amenity plots intended for seminaries and weal services have been handed over to private business realities.

He prompted authorities to take action against similar practices and restore the true purpose of educational spaces. “ Education should serve society, not be a tool for exploitation, ” he said.

Shakoor praised the Punjab government’s recent action to consolidate lower pastoral seminaries into larger institutions with better structure. He recommended that Sindh borrow a analogous strategy, as thousands of small pastoral seminaries remain dysfunctional across the fiefdom. “ incorporating these seminaries will insure better resource application and bettered literacy conditions for scholars, ” he suggested.

The PDP leader also emphasized the critical need to contemporize Pakistan’s outdated class. “ The syllabus being tutored in our seminaries, sodalities, and universities is decades behind global norms, ” he said. He called for the preface of contemporary subjects, digital education, and practical literacy models aligned with ultramodern job requests.

pressing the country’s severance extremity, Shakoor supported for lesser focus on specialized and vocational training.However, we can significantly reduce retirement and strengthen the frugality, ” he said, “ If we empower our youth with hands- on chops.

Proposing structural reforms, he demanded that each quarter of Pakistan should have at least one general university, one engineering council, and one tutoring sanitarium. “ Education and healthcare are the backbone of progress. Without strengthening them, no country can move forward, ” he said forcefully.

In his ending reflections, Altaf Shakoor extended his sincere congratulations to preceptors across Pakistan. “ Our preceptors are the real nation- builders, yet they continue to face injustice and neglect, ” he said. “ The Pasban Democratic Party stands in full solidarity with them and will continue to raise a strong voice for their rights and quality. ”

On this transnational preceptors’ Day, his communication served as both a homage and a call to action — a memorial that without sincere investment in education, Pakistan’s unborn generations will continue to pay the price for decades of governmental apathy.