This refers to rather rueful media reports, expressing utter disappointment over the meager allocation for education in the 2011 - 2012 national budget, which is about 1.4 percent of the total outlay. This meager allocation may be termed by some as being simply pathetic, not even a drop in the ocean, but for the cynic, it is a hugely generous allocation by a government whose list of national priorities does not include education.
In Pakistan, anyway, who needs education, for, this is a country that is headed by a 10th grader. Just see how successful he is in life as a person coming from a family with a basic and modest background, yet, he is now a billionaire, the richest man in the country, with tons and tons of dollars stashed in foreign bank accounts, enviable assets, expensive properties across the continents and a château in the south of France, truly an exotic icing on the cake.
Also, just take a look at Pakistan's wealthy legislators, almost 50% of whom, hold fake college degrees and who can not even make a 5 minute error - free conversation, or write a paragraph which makes any sense, yet they drive around in expensive limousines, tagged with "MNA " or "MPA" plates and having assets, (unaccounted for), running into hundreds of millions of rupees!
In this 'land of honey and sunshine', one does not have to be educated to go places in life. To be successful in Pakistan, one has to be a semi literate, a money-launderer, or a bank loan defaulter, a clever tax dodger, or a mafia chief specialising in land grabbing, drug trafficking or extortion or a smuggler. One does not have to be educated or have a legitimate gainful vocation to be rich and successful, in this land of the pure, where only the "impure" succeed, period.
Thank you, Mr President, Mr Prime Minister and Mr Finance Minister for the most generous budgetary allocation for education. Kindly accept profound gratitude of a nation, endowed with an enviable 75 percent rate of illiteracy!