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Right to Free and Compulsory Education in Pakistan
WAQAR AHMAD RANA
Topic: HUMAN RIGHTS (Rights to free and compulsory Education in Pakistan)

HUMAN RIGHTS:
Human rights imply the rights concerning to life, freedom, equality and self-worth of the distinct. The UN charter in its preamble reaffirms the determination of the United Nations “to save the succeeding generations from the scourge of war, reaffirmed faith in fundamental human rights and pledged to promote social progress and better standards of life. There is - of course, one might say - no absolute agreement as to how to define human rights, but among ESC human rights, the substance of the right to education is comparatively well defined: universal access to free and compulsory primary education, universal obtainability/approachability of secondary education, in specific by the liberal introduction of free education; equal access to higher education on the basis of size, in particular by the progressive introduction of free education.

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(Rights to free and compulsory education in Pakistan)
In today’s period of technological advancement, development of nation is liked largely with the nation of their citizens and accessibility of trained human resources for the economy. Education not only nurtures talent and personality of the children from the beginning of their childhood, it also cooks them for their role as responsible and productive citizens. Education allows nations and local communities to gradually evolve and reinforce their system of social, justice, democratic institutions and foster valves of peace, harmony, tolerance, and mutual respect among their new generations. Education is the fundamental right of all human beings and an unambiguous path to sustainable socio-economic development. No society can dream developments if bearable proportion of its population is illiterate and considerable number of the children are not in schools. But the worse situation in Pakistan is that there are millions of children who are out of

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