ISLAMABAD: Punjab Chief Minister Shahbaz Sharif is expected to lay the foundation stone of the Pak-Bosnia International School near Jhelum today (Monday).
The school is being built by Bosnia to help Pakistan bring enrol more out-of-school children into schools. “Pakistan is the sixth-most populated country in the world and is counted amongst the least literate nations in the world, where almost 5.5 million children are out of school and only one in four is able to make it to the 10th standard,” Bosnian Ambassador Dr Nedim Makarevic said while giving details about the English medium school in one of the most backward areas of Punjab. The school, he said, would initially accommodate 240 children and would be able to enrol 480 children at a later stage.
When questioned what motivated him to set up the school, Nedim said he wanted to give Pakistan something that was of long-term value. He said the school would be completed in April this year. “Education is an important aspect of socio-economic development for any country in the world. An educated society has more chances of development,” he added.
“We wanted to give Pakistan something which will be long term value,” said the ambassador who had also composed a special song soon after the terrorist attack on Army Public School in Peshawar in 2014, indicating his love and compassion of school children and to spotlight the great sacrifices being rendered by Pakistan in the war against extremism. Pak-Bosnia International School would have qualified teachers and air-conditioned classrooms so that children could concentrate on their studies in sweltering heat of Jhelum.
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