Pakistan

Development: Book on social change launched

Pakistan must make social, scientific and economic advances or risk being consigned to “the dustbin of history”.

Express April 11, 2011 Less than a minute read

LAHORE: Pakistan must make social, scientific and economic advances or risk being consigned to “the dustbin of history”, said author Mahmood Mirza at the launch of his book Social Change Through Social Politics at the Punjab University Executive Club on Sunday.

“We must leap forward if we want to survive in a competitive world and move ahead in social and natural sciences, or we will be thrown in the dustbin of history,” Mirza said.

He added that change could only be brought about by the middle class.

PU Vice Chancellor Mujahid Kamran noted that Pakistan spent less than two per cent of GDP on education, whereas developed countries spent over five per cent of their GDP on education.

Published in The Express Tribune, April 11^th, 2011.