Govt To Unveil Roadmap For Education Soon: Shafqat Mahmood

A one-day open house exhibition featuring stalls of different partner organizations was held here Tuesday in order to commemorate the 60th anniversary of a German NGO, Friedrich Naumann Foundation for Freedom (FNF).

ISLAMABAD, (UrduPoint / Pakistan Point News - 20th Nov, 2018 ) :A one-day open house exhibition featuring stalls of different partner organizations was held here Tuesday in order to commemorate the 60th anniversary of a German NGO, Friedrich Naumann Foundation for Freedom (FNF).

Speaking at the occasion, Federal Minister for Education and Professional Training Shafqat Mahmood said the government is planning a roadmap for education and would unveil it in the next few days.

He said the present government is seriously engaged in planning a roadmap for education. "We are going to focus on four areas including bringing out of school children to schools, to constitute single national curriculum, improvement of quality of education and developing the skills of your young people would be the major priorities.

"These four priorities be part of our objectives and the next few days we would be unveiling them", he said, adding that we will unveil particular program in the capital city for out of school children in which we have many partners. The minister said FNF has done a great service to the civil society of Pakistan as it provides platform to public and financial resources. Stronger civil society organizations are the essential part of the democracy.

"Democracy can not progress without stronger civil society organizations", he said, adding that all these activities reflect strong relation between Pakistan and Germany. German Ambassador to Pakistan, Martin Kobler, while speaking on the occasion said FNF has been working in this country for last 32 years.

This is long engagement to support civil society to promote democracy, to advocate for economic freedom and focus on education", he said, adding that where there is no education there can no body can promote civil society as education is the basis of solution of all problems.

Kobler said freedom is under threat now-a-days in many areas in the international sphere. He said now freedom is under threat, multilateral system is under threat and the recurrence to nationalism is underway which has an in effect on each and every state."There are challenges to mutualism and rule of law," he said, adding that no system would be able to survive without strong rule of law of system.

He said where there is stronger rule of law the national companies will have confidence to invest in the country. Kobler urged the present government to focus 22 million out of school children back to schools.