Right to Education in Pakistan: Legal Obligations and Social Barriers

Anis Ahmed; Dr. Tansif Ur Rehman; Aliya Saeed

doi:10.5281/

Authors

Anis Ahmed Department of Law, Dadabhoy Institute of Higher Education, Pakistan Author
Dr. Tansif Ur Rehman Teaching Associate, Department of Sociology, University of Karachi, Pakistan; and Visiting Faculty, Department of Law, Dadabhoy Institute of Higher Education, Pakistan Author
Aliya Saeed PhD Fellow at School of Law, University of Karachi, Pakistan Author

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.5281/

Keywords:

Challenges, Historical Context, Laws, Opportunities, Theoretical Context

Abstract

This study aims to critically analyze the right to education in Pakistan within the two terms of the legal framework and socio-cultural resistance. Even though the free and mandatory education age is 5 to 16 years in Article 25-A of the Constitution of Pakistan, the difference between the law and the practice is not less impressive. Simultaneously, it examines the social barriers in society that lie behind such issues as gender discrimination, poverty, and child labor, which continue to deny access to education, girls in particular, and people experiencing poverty in society, particularly. The work, based on a sociological study and a legal analysis of the doctrine, presents the interaction of systematic malfunctions and dogmatized attitudes in society in depriving millions of the right to the Constitution. It has been concluded in the paper that it is possible to suggest policy reforms and community-based interventions in order to reconcile the difference between the legal and real educational reality of the Pakistani youth.