{"id":9642,"date":"2024-03-27T09:16:09","date_gmt":"2024-03-27T09:16:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/theasiantelegraph.global\/?p=9642"},"modified":"2024-03-27T09:16:09","modified_gmt":"2024-03-27T09:16:09","slug":"president-calls-for-provincial-govts-to-ensure-education-access-for-orphaned-nationwide","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theasiantelegraph.global\/?p=9642","title":{"rendered":"President calls for provincial Govts to ensure education access for orphaned nationwide"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"682\" src=\"https:\/\/theasiantelegraph.global\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/IMG-20240327-WA0024-1024x682.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-9643\" srcset=\"https:\/\/theasiantelegraph.global\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/IMG-20240327-WA0024-1024x682.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/theasiantelegraph.global\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/IMG-20240327-WA0024-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/theasiantelegraph.global\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/IMG-20240327-WA0024-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/theasiantelegraph.global\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/IMG-20240327-WA0024-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/theasiantelegraph.global\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/IMG-20240327-WA0024-2048x1365.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<pre class=\"wp-block-code\"><code>ISLAMABAD : President Asif Ali Zardari  urged provincial governments to take special measures aimed at ensuring access to primary and secondary education for orphaned children across the country. <\/code><\/pre>\n\n\n\n<p>Stressing the need to actively participate in the cause of education, training and care of orphans, the president said the support and education of orphans was a common responsibility of all of us.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>He was speaking at an iftar dinner hosted by him for the orphaned children at the President House on the occasion of Orphans Day.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Every year on 15th of Ramazan, the World Orphan&#8217;s Day is celebrated on the call of Organization of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) in all the member countries.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>President Zardari said he was delighted to meet the innocent and charming children.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Aseefa Bhutto Zardari was also present in the ceremony. She also met orphans from different cities of Pakistan.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Chairman Pakistan Orphan Care Forum (POCF) Air Marshal (retd) Farooq Habib addressing the event said the POCF was working for the upbringing and care of orphans.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>He said healthy societies always care for the development and education of the vulnerable, especially orphans.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>He said there were about 4.6 million orphans in the country while the POCF was taking care of around 100,000 orphan children.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Expressing gratitude to President Asif Zardari, the Chairman POCF said inviting children to the presidency would increase their confidence and motivation.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Stressing the need to actively participate in the cause of education, training and care of orphans, the president said the support and education of orphans was a common responsibility of&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":9643,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[42],"class_list":["post-9642","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-national","tag-president-house"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theasiantelegraph.global\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9642","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/theasiantelegraph.global\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/theasiantelegraph.global\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theasiantelegraph.global\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theasiantelegraph.global\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=9642"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/theasiantelegraph.global\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9642\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9644,"href":"https:\/\/theasiantelegraph.global\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9642\/revisions\/9644"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theasiantelegraph.global\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/9643"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theasiantelegraph.global\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9642"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theasiantelegraph.global\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9642"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theasiantelegraph.global\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9642"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}