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Summary Pakistan has utterly failed to achieve its goal to make the population literate.
International Literacy Day as being celebrated worldwide in order to highlight the importance of literacy. According to the official statistics, 57 percent people in Pakistan are literate. Every when who knows how to read, write and sign in local language is considered literate. Area and gender-wise there exists many disparities in Pakistan. On International Literacy Day each year, UNESCO reminds the international community of the status of literacy and adult learning globally. Celebrations take place around the world.Since its very inception, this day became an occasion to mark literacy awareness and many educational programmes are featured on this particular day. Despite many and varied efforts, literacy remains an elusive target: some 793 million adults lack minimum literacy skills which means that about one in six adults is still not literate, about two-thirds of them are women; while 67.4 million children are out-of-school and many more attend irregularly or drop out..
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