Pakistan, Oct. 16 -- A critical global conversation on safeguarding and shaping the future of the next generation began as the 13th International Conference on 'Raising Children in Our Times,' hosted by the Aga Khan University's Institute for Educational Development (IED), opened in Karachi. Chief Guest Syed Sardar Ali Shah, Minister for Education Sindh, who declared the proper raising of children to be the "fundamental challenge of our era". He asserted that the future is built not in parliaments or factories, but in the "nurturing, protected, and enlightened spaces we create for our children today".

He said that he personally considers the topic of raising children a matter of great responsibility. "I have always supported the notion t...