Pakistan, July 6 -- An important Inter-Provincial Education Ministers' Conference (IPEMC) has been rescheduled and now it will take place on 08 July. The conference was all set to review the reopening of the educational institutions including schools, colleges and universities across the country. As the government is mulling plans to reopen the universities with strict implementation of Standard Operating Procedures (SOPs) but no final decision has been made yet.

In a country where even almost 75 million children now out of school, continued school closure will result in an educational and social disaster that will take generations to repair. A recent Gallup Poll in Pakistan has 74 percent of respondent parents in favour of school reopen...