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In Pakistan, we have become very good at celebrating beginnings – a new school building; a photograph of smiling girls holding textbooks; a ribbon cutting ceremony with media coverage.
We excel at these moments; the promise, the optimism, the perfect photograph and media coverage.
These moments matter. But they have also allowed us to look away from a harder truth: far too many girls disappear from education just when it should begin to change their lives.
The key findings of the upcoming 'Status of Girls' Education in Pakistan' Report shows that at the primary level, some progress is visible. Yet beyond these early years lies a familiar and troubling pattern I have seen across Pakistan: girls who start school with confidence and ambition quietly vanish from classr
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