State of Education in Balochistan

Pakistan's strategic heartland, resource rich - known as a land of hospitality, the Baloch land is deprived and suffering from all sort of crises. Horribly mismanage and misgoverned by the Islamabad’s puppet leaders, Balochistan is only thriving in field of institutional corruption, appalling human rights violations, mutilated corpses and e and political violence.

The major concerns of Balochistan are rarely mentioned and highlighted Pakistan’s mushroom grown but biased media. A century old perceptions and rhetoric coined by the colonial rulers and current establishment is widely repeated by the media persons, journalists and TV anchors.

Along with other appalling issues education in Balochistan has and had always been neglected by the federal and Balochistan’s puppet regimes.

The recent spate of violence started in 2001 and escalated in full-fledge civil war has unimaginably resulted in worsening meagerly available education resources and institutions.

Indiscriminate military operation, condemnable killings and intimidation of teachers by armed groups, corrupt regime, bed governance daily protests, strikes and  growing insecurity of Baloch students, , law and order situations and violence, province literacy rate is falling with full speed. Students bullet riddled and mutilated bodies, teachers target killings, and burning schools and colleges has nearly stopped the wheel of education in Balochistan. It's not over, establishment and Islamabad blaming Sardars and Nawabs, has also played a big role to build up scenarios for students to keep them limited in their houses and not to allow them to continue their studies.

 Movements for freedom and sovereignty are lead by leaders always, and it's also must for survival of the movement but in Balochistan the situation is inverse, students are leading the struggle and leaders are enjoying, because of no experience and effusive temper they have no gain, nothing in sovereignty and nor even in field of education. It's because politics and war are not the fields of students but there emotions and love for their motherland are used negatively and are asked to leave education and start armed struggle.

 As a wisdom full  quote by Sanaullah Baloch that "How can a region develop when it has more soldiers than teachers, more garrison then universities, more naval bases than science and research centers? In Balochistan today, Frontier Corps (FC) cantonments outnumber colleges, there are more police stations than vocational training centers and more check-posts than government schools". Yes off course he is right, now a days Army is building cantonment board instead of institutions, and they'll soon get a negative result, because 3-10 years child always try to adopt that he/she observe more near himself, and they see Army and FC as their enemies and surely they'll start struggle against them and because of this education will get a huge shock and a huge hole will be created which will be so hard to fill in future.

 Education system of Balochistan is also dump, students are taught just Urdu language till 5^th class, which is waste of time and is of no work, because there mother tongue is not Urdu and it's also not given any importance in any part of the world, and students are unable to read and write in their own language. Need of the time English is taught to student in 6^th class and they hardly learn something. There are no any periods for extra activities of students. The main problem is that schools or colleges doesn't seem like institutions, teachers don't ask on absentees, everybody comes and leaves institution as his own wish.

 Let not to discuss other countries, and see can we compete with other provinces of Pakistan like Punjab has 59%, Sindh with 50%, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa has 52% and Gilgit Baltistan with 54% but why literacy rate of Balochistan has fallen up to 34%? Why is it so?