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Summary Pakistan spends seven times more on arms as compared to primary education, according to a report prepared by UN Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organisation (UNESCO).
Education for All Monitoring Report 2011 has revealed that the difference between primary education and military expenditure is so large that just one-fifth of Pakistans military spending would be sufficient to finance the primary education.According to the report, diversion of national resources to the military and loss of government revenue meant that armed conflict shifted the responsibility for education financing from government to households. The report also says that as many as 600,000 children in three districts of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa were reported in 2009 to have missed one year or more of school because of conflict and displacement. The report says that the impact of armed conflict on education has been widely neglected. The report further says that insurgents in KPK and Fata have attacked girls’ primary and secondary schools and the motives behind attacks are to destroy the education infrastructure. The countrys madressahs have been viewed as a recruiting centres for terrorists but there is no credible evidence to support the opinion, the report says.
