President Dr Arif Alvi on Thursday stressed the need for making all possible efforts in collaboration with the mosques to educate around 28 million Out of school children (OoSC) in the country. The president, chairing a meeting to discuss the role of mosques in promotion of education, said the mosques could be used for promotion of literacy in the country.
Caretaker Minister for Religious Affairs, education ministers of Sindh and Azad Jammu and Kashmir, provincial education secretaries, and representatives of Auqaf and Religious Affairs departments attended the meeting. In the meeting, the president was briefed about the Accelerated Learning Program. It was told that over 70,000 out-of-school children in Islamabad were enrolled in the schools.
