Minister for Parliamentary Affairs (MPA) Murtaza Javed Abbasi apprised the National Assembly (NA) that the government was making all-out efforts to enforce uniform education curriculum across the country besides adopting Urdu as an official language gradually.
Replying to various questions during the Question Hour session, he said that after the 18th amendment, education was a devolved subject to the provinces and the provincial governments were autonomous. However, the federal government was making all-out efforts to implement a uniform syllabus with the collaboration of the provinces, he added.
To another question, he replied that the Chairman (and Members) Federal Public Service Commission (FPSC) were retired persons who were appointed by the President on the advice of the Prime Minister (PM) in terms of Section 3 of the FPSC Ordinance, 1977.
