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To: IQBAL LATIF who wrote (44212)	6/5/2003 12:29:19 PM
From: IQBAL LATIF	Respond to of 50167

Thanks from our heart......US to give Pakistan 100 million dollars for education.Two-thirds of Pakistani females over 10 are unable to read or write compared to 40 percent of men in the same age group, according to a 2001-2002 government survey. The United States will give Pakistan 100 million dollars for education over the next five years, US ambassador Nancy Powell announced Thursday.Making the pledge at a seminar in Islamabad on child labour, Powell cited government figures that showed 51 percent of Pakistani children over 10 years old have never attended school. In 2002 15.4 percent of all children between 10 and 14 year old in Pakistan were working, according to International Labour Organisation estimates. Some 3.3 million children, aged between five and 14, were involved in child labour in 1996, according to a joint ILO-Pakistan government survey. The persistence of bonded and trafficked labour in Pakistan is perhaps the most troubling aspect of the child labour crisis, Powell said. Education spending in Pakistan last year was as low as 2.2 percent of Gross Domestic Product. The government's social welfare advisor, Neelofur Bakhtiar, told the seminar that almost seven million Pakistani school-age children are not in school. About 15 percent of boys and 50 percent of girls do not enter school, she said. Independent economists have urged the government to at least double education spending in the coming fiscal year's budget, due to be announced on Saturday.