Certain misguided elements caused damage to Karachi, says Mamnoon

Karachi: President Mamnoon Hussain has said certain misguided elements through their ill-designs had caused massive damage to Karachi, but peace was later revived in the city due to the right strategy and timely actions of the present government.

“Nobody could now stop the journey of development of this city and of Pakistan,” he said on Saturday during a visit to Khatoon-e-Pakistan Girls’ School.

The president was briefed on the occasion about the methods being used to run and improve the state of the school by Zindagi Trust, which has been running the educational institution.

He said the country would continue its journey on the path of progress, and very soon there would be improvement in the situation. “Incidents of problems and despair do take place in a country, but nobody should be worried about them.”

Hussain was of the view that human resource development could not take place without education, but in the past, education and equally important sectors had been ignored.

He said the nationalisation of educational institutions in the past had caused several problems. The private sector could play an important role to resolve these issues and to promote education in the country, he added.

The president said ghost schools had been responsible for lowering the literacy rate in the country, but the government had the resolve to promote education in the country after ending the menace of ghost schools.

He emphasised that women should be provided with education on a compulsory basis for the cause of national development. He said the sector of primary education should be handled completely by teachers, and the Ministry of Education Reforms had been working on such a proposal.

The president advised the students of the school to get education to the maximum possible extent in the field of their personal choice. He also advised that students should go abroad if the need so arose for securing higher education in the field or the subject of their choice.

“But students during their stay abroad should compulsorily observe the values of Pakistan and there should not be blind faith in the civilisations of aliens.”

The president said Karachi was host to people known for their philanthropic work, and the people of the city generously donated to welfare causes.

He said that industrialists and traders of the city had generously donated to complete a number of major development works in Karachi, which was a praiseworthy phenomenon.