Education concerns in Pakistan
22/04/2010
There are mounting concerns regarding the state of education in Pakistan.
A number of schools in the country's northern conflict zones have reopened but people are worried about damage to the buildings that the fighting has caused, Irin News reports.
There is also unease about the standard of teaching and funding being given to educational facilities for displaced children in camps.
Government officials have announced that pupils are back in classes in Swat District where Taliban militants destroyed more than 350 schools.
However, Imdad Hassan, a resident in the region, told the news provider: "My son's school was badly damaged in 2009 by fire. Now the children sit outdoors or on the floors of gutted classrooms that lack walls or roofs."
It was recently reported that relief efforts at the Kacha Pakha camp in Pakistan had been suspended because of a number of bomb attacks in the region that killed at least 41 people.
Written by John Curtis
