F.P. Report
TIMERGARA: Speakers of a two day educational conference have urged teachers’ community to strongly resist privatization and westernization of education in Pakistan and prepare the coming generation to serve the nation in a better way.
The two day divisional education conference which concluded at the Ahya ul Uloom Balambat here on Monday was organized by the Tanzeem e Asateza Lower Dir chapter, a teachers’ wing affiliated with Jamaat-i-Islami.
The organization central general secretary Hamid ul Haq, provincial president Khairullah Hawari, KP finance minister Muzafar Syed, MPA Izaz ul Mulk Afkari, Tanzeem e Asateza Pakistan former president Syed Jehan Badshah and others addressed the conference. Teachers from Lower Dir, Upper Dir, Chitral and Bajaur Agency participated.
The speakers said that some hidden powers wanted to change schools’ syllabus and privatize the education sector. They termed it an attack on education. They said the Tanzeem e Asateza was keenly observing the situation and it would not allow anyone to bring changes or westernize schools’ syllabus. The speakers said that class room was a post for teacher and he should use it for producing good Muslim citizen. They asked the participants to get the knowledge of the Holy Qur’an and Sunnah and prepare the nation in the light of that knowledge.
They said that Pakistan had been an ideological state that came into being on the name of Islam. “We will strongly resist westernization of our school curriculum and privatization of education sector,” Khairullah Hawari said, adding the teachers’ community had rejected the proposed education act 2017 of the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa government.
The teachers also demanded unconditional approval of their time scale promotion, regularization of ad hoc teachers and up-gradation of various posts.
