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Conclusions or opinions expressed in Center publications and programs are those of the authors and speakers and do not necessarily reflect the views of the Center staff, fellows, trustees, advisory groups, or any individuals or organizations that provide financial support to the Center. Please visit [us online at](us online at www.wilsoncenter.org)[ www.wilsoncenter.org](us online at www.wilsoncenter.org).  \nJane Harman, Director, President, and CEO  \nBoard of Trustees  \nThomas R. Nides, Chairman  \nPublic members: William Adams, Chairman of the National Endowment for the Humanities; David Mao, Acting Librarian of Congress; Sylvia Mathews Burwell, Secretary of Health and Human Services; John B. King, Jr. , Secretary of Education; David Ferriero, Archivist of the United States; David J. Skorton, Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution; John F. Kerry, Secretary of State. Designated appointee of the president from within the federal government: Fred P. Hochberg, Chairman and President, Export-Import Bank of the United States  \nPrivate Citizen Members: Peter Beshar, John T. Casteen III, Thelma Duggin, Lt. Gen Susan Helms, USAF (Ret. ), Barry S. Jackson, Nathalie Rayes, Earl W. Stafford, Jane Watson Stetson  \nWilson National Cabinet: Ambassador Joseph B. Gildenhorn & Alma Gildenhorn, Cochairs, Eddie & Sylvia Brown, Armeane & Mary Choksi, Ambassadors Sue & Chuck Cobb, Lester Crown, Thelma Duggin, Judi Flom, Sander R. Gerber, Harman Family Foundation, Frank Islam, Willem Kooyker, Raymond Learsy & Melva Bucksbaum*, Robert & Julie Mandell, Frederic & Marlene Malek, Linda B. & Tobia G. Mercuro, Thomas R. Nides, Nathalie Rayes, Wayne Rogers, B. Francis Saul II, Diana Davis Spencer, Jane Watson Stetson, Leo Zickler  \n*Deceased  \nPreface   \nPakistan faces a multitude of challenges that go beyond terrorism, political instability, and other securityrelated problems that tend to attract the most attention in Washington. Pakistan suffers from public health dilemmas, energy woes, water shortages, and high levels of food insecurity, to name just a few.  \nIt also suffers from an extensive education crisis. Millions of Pakistani children do not attend school, and those that do must deal with absent teachers and poor learning environments, among other things. What makes Pakistan’s education crisis particularly troubling is that it exacerbates many of the country’s other problems. The uneducated masses complicate efforts to groom qualified experts to effectively address Pakistan’s many public policy challenges. Additionally, young people without sufficient education have trouble getting jobs and can become desirable recruitment targets for militant groups.  \nThe Wilson Center’s Asia Program, mindful of the serious nature of Pakistan’s education crisis and the troubling implications it poses for the country, has addressed this issue numerous times over the last 11 years—culminating in products that included a book in 2005 and a major conference in 2014. Unfortunately, the same manifestations of the crisis highlighted in this earlier work remain present today, and the education crisis continues to rage. 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