Pakistan lags behind in Millennium Development Goals

LAHORE: Citing the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) report, SPARC says Pakistan lags behind other South Asian countries in achieving the MDGs by 2015. The MDGs include promoting education for all (EAF). The goal is to achieve Universal Primary Education, and its target is to ensure by 2015 that children everywhere, boys and girls alike, should be able to complete a full course of primary schooling. “A recent report by the independent evaluation group of the World Bank states that Pakistan is far from reaching the Education For All MDG by the target year 2015; thus the problem of child labour would affect the children and country badly,” the report cites. staff report.
source: dailytimes.com.pk