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The total enrollment in primary public sector is 11,840,719; 57% (6,776,536) are boys, and 43% (5,064,183) are girls. 79% of all the primary students in Pakistan are enrolled in rural schools, and the gender enrollment ratios are 59% and 41% for boys and girls respectively in rural Pakistan. Private sector.
— Malala Yousafzai, 24 January 2009 BBC blog entry In February 2009, girls' schools were still closed. In solidarity, private schools for boys had decided not to open until 9 February, and notices appeared saying so. On 7 February, Yousafzai and her brother returned to their hometown of Mingora, where the streets were deserted, and there was an "eerie silence". She wrote in her blog: "We ...
1972. De-nationalised. 1990 [1] St Lawrence's Convent Girls' School is a private Catholic primary and secondary school for girls located in Karachi, Sindh, Pakistan. Founded by the Sister of the Franciscan Missionaries of Mary in 1936 as a co-educational school, the school is now part of the Archdiocese of Karachi .
School girls wearing Shalwar Kameez, in Abbottabad. Pakistani school girls in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa. Despite the improvement in Pakistan's literacy rate since its independence, the educational status of Pakistani women is among the lowest in the world. The literacy rate for urban women is more than five times the rate for rural women.
Pakistan has one of the lowest literacy rates in South Asia at 49.9 percent. The male literacy rate is 61.7 percent and the female literacy rate is 35.2 percent. The female literacy rate drops to twenty-five percent in rural areas of Pakistan. Girls' school enrollment also significantly drops in the rural areas of Pakistan.
This new school was named St Bonaventure's High School. Once Pakistan acquired independence, it was clear that the nation would be an Islamic sovereign state, so a need arose for the gender-based separation of the coeducational school. The new wing founded for girls was named St Mary's Convent High School after Mary, the mother of Christ.
May 29, 2024 at 4:49 AM. DERA ISMAIL KHAN, Pakistan (AP) — A group of militants used kerosine to set fire to a girls’ school in a former Pakistani Taliban stronghold, destroying furniture ...
Sacred Heart High School for Girls, Lahore. St Joseph's Convent School, Karachi. St. Joseph's Convent School, Quetta. St Lawrence's Convent Girls' School. St Mary's Convent High School, Hyderabad. St. Ann's Presentation Convent High School, Rawalpindi. Categories: Girls' schools by country. Schools in Pakistan.