Expansion of quality education to remote areas key to Pakistan’s progress: PM

Asserting that the expansion of quality education to remote regions was central to Pakistan’s progress, Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif on Thursday reaffirmed his government’s commitment to national security as well as to its unrelenting political, diplomatic and moral support for the people of occupied Jammu and Kashmir. Speaking at a ceremony after performing the groundbreaking of a Daanish School in Harighel in Bagh district of Azad Jammu and Kashmir (AJK), the prime minister said the network of Daanish Schools, launched in Punjab in 2010, had grown across the country and was transforming the lives of children from underprivileged areas. PM Shehbaz said construction work on the Daanish School in Bhimber, initiated early this year, had already reached 35 per cent completion, while “considerable progress” had been made on the Bagh campus as well. He said he had directed the Education Department to ensure the school’s inauguration on March 23, 2026.