Pakistan, Jan. 19 -- The 5th Oxford Big Read (OBR) prize distribution ceremony was held on Monday and was attended by the winning students, teachers and parents.

This was the fifth year running that the Oxford Big Read competition was being held with the objective of inculcating reading habits in students from a young age and is open to all schools across Pakistan. The 5th OBR had participants from 176 schools across Pakistan with 5,466 students belonging to 40 cities. In this edition, the national winners competed at the Asia Education Level comprising of students from India, Malaysia, China and Pakistan and won across all 3 categories; Level I: Grades 1 -3, Level II: Grades 4 - 6 and Level III: Grades 7 - 9.

At the prize distribution ...