KARACHI: Jamaat-e-Islami amir Hafiz Naeemur Rehman said that youth would have to get their rights by showing resilience and resistance. Addressing crowd at Karachi’s Expo Ventre, he said that country has turned 77 years and during these struggling years, one half was separated due to injustices they had to endure after independence.

He has criticised commercialiaation of education, revealing that over 27.5 million children in Pakistan are out of school. He emphasised that education has been reduced to business, depriving 90 percent of population of access to quality learning. Moreover, only 2.5 million students have opportunity to pursue education after completing their intermediate studies. 

Addressing broader crisis in education, Hafiz Naeem called for urgent reforms, stressing need to provide skills-based learning opportunities for nation’s youth.

He lamented lack of educational infrastructure, with fewer than 3 million children having access to essential skill development programmes. He said, “Real problem lies with ruling class who has been exploiting resources of country since inception.” JI amir said that state should provide health facilities and maintain peace and order in country but Pakistanis have not been getting these basic rights due to hold of elite class. He further said that quality of education in Pakistan could be greatly improved by properly using budget. On Israeli brutality, he said Muslim world should be united in providing aid to hapless Gazans.