The government has declared technical and vocational education compulsory to fight illiteracy and poverty on war footing by establishing more technical institutions and vocational centers. Federal Minister for Education Lieutenant General Javed Ashraf Qazi (Retd) said this while addressing a function organised by the Sir Syed Memorial Society to pay tribute to Father of the Nation, Quaid-I-Azam Mohammad Ali Jinnah, here on Monday.
He said the entire nation, especially the policy-makers and the politicians, must joint hands to improve literacy rate.
He maintained that soon the country would become the best choice for the foreign investors, industrialists and other corporate bosses when the skill gap was filled.
He said those, who were criticising the present educational policies, were actually not the well-wishers of Pakistan as only illiterate people could be exploited on the basis of religion.
Paying tributes to the Quaid-I-Azam, Qazi said the traumatic events of the pre-partition era left the Muslims of the sub-continent totally bewildered and rudderless without education, jobs, leadership and hope.
At that critical juncture, Mohammad Ali Jinnah carried out a realistic analysis of the situation and worked for the creation of Pakistan, he maintained.
He told the participants that the Quaid was the real believer of the enlightened moderation theory, as he stressed upon the Muslims to learn English in addition to Urdu.
He maintained that the Quaid really wanted a secular state instead of a theocratic state, because he believed that the Muslims had strong faith in Islam and no body could force to follow his ideology in their independent homeland.
Speaking on the occasion, former ADC of Quaid-I- Azam, Brigadier Noor Hussain (Retd), stressed upon the participants to live up to the expectations of the Father of the Nation by facilitating the government in implementation of its policies.
The veterans of the freedom movement also spoke on the occasion, and requested the minister to include the speeches of the Quaid in the syllabus.
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