By Hamid Khan Wazir
ISLAMABAD, Pakistan: As Pakistan grapples with the deadly Coronavirus, the President Private Schools Network (PSN) Muhammad Afzal Babur has urged the government to shut down all business for 15 days instead of just closing educational institutes if lockdown is the sole panacea to defeat the virus, which is now becoming a global challenge.
Talking to this scribe exclusively, Babar lamented that the education sector suffered the most in Pakistan due to the coronavirus because almost all other sectors were allowed to function with some limited restrictions across the country.
However, he said that educational institutes often remained closed since the outbreak of the deadly virus in the Country.
The president PNS demanded that if the virus spread can be checked through lockdown, all sectors should be closed for 15 days to deal with the menace once and for all.
However, he regretted that closing just the education sector raised many eyebrows as if the virus merely spreads from educational institutions.
Babar questioned the logic as to why always the educational institutions are the prime target to stem the spread of the life-taking virus.
“It seems a well-thought-out plan against Pakistan to destroy its youth,” he said.
While giving reference of Punjab and Khyber Pakhtunkhwa health ministers, who, the president PSN said, publicly admitted that no purely Coronavirus death was reported among children in the country as they already have some other chronic diseases.
The President Private Schools Network said that Coronavirus Cases reported in children but no death occurred purely from the deadly virus hitherto.
Babur went to say that the private schools charging a lesser fee are suffered the most, as the high-charge fee schools are in advantage of the closure as they are getting their fees uninterruptedly, as the parents can’t afford to drop their children from the schools as they would have to repay hefty admission fee.
The president PNS said that 85% private schools, which are the helping hand of the state, are the worst victims of the closure, as their businesses are badly destroyed, besides causing irreparable loss to the future generations of Pakistan.
Talking about the online education system, Babar said that even the online education system has failed at the university level what to talk of the primary schools located in remote areas of the Country.
Babur suggested that the government should fix some days for schools instead of complete closure as we have already wasted much of the precious time of our children.
The president PNS said that it looks like the advisors to Prime Minister Imran Khan presented a wrong picture to the premier and our youth are being destroyed through a well-planned conspiracy.
