Karachi Jamaat-e-Islami (JI) Emir Monem Zafar on Monday inaugurated a camp set up in Gulistan-e-Jauhar under as part of the party’s Parho Parhao Campaign in Gulistan-e-Jauhar Block 1.
According to a statement issued by the JI, the Parho Parhao Campaign will continue until April 25, during which residents of Gulistan-e-Jauhar Block 1 to Block 15 will be able to obtain free books for their sons and daughters.
Speaking to local residents, Zafar said the JI firmly believed that the true foundation of any nation’s progress lied in education. He said that without providing quality education to children, it was impossible to build a strong and self-reliant society.
He added that this was why the JI was striving to bring about an educational revolution in Karachi through the Parho Parhao Campaign and Bano Qabil Program. He explained that under the Bano Qabil Program, young people were being provided free modern IT education.
Despite the lack of authority and limited resources, the JI’s local government representatives remained actively engaged in public service, he maintained. He said that it was evident from the performance of the nine towns of Karachi being run by the JI that when resources were placed in the hands of honest, competent and sincere leadership, a shortage of resources did not become an obstacle to public service and solving people’s problems.
He criticised the stalled development projects in the city, including the Red Line, saying that they had become a source of suffering for the public. Zafar asserted that the issue was not a lack of authority or resources, but incompetence, corruption and mismanagement.
The JI leader said that under the Bano Qabil Program, more than 450,000 students had registered so far, while over 50,000 young people had completed free IT courses and become a support for their parents.
He added that these were not just numbers, but signs of the changing destiny of this city. Referring to the recently held aptitude test, he said the participation of 45,000 students proved that Karachi’s youth wanted to learn, move forward and improve their lives.
He said the Parho Parhao Movement was another extension of the JI’s mission of spreading education. In today’s era of inflation, he said, it was becoming a major challenge for the parents to educate their children. Books, school bags and other educational expenses were moving beyond the reach of the common people, he lamented. Through the JI’s platform, free books were being provided to students from Grade 1 to matriculation, Zafar said as he appealed to philanthropists to become part of the campaign.
