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The Broken Proviso: Health, Education, and the Legitimacy of

October 19, 2026

Azhar Rashid Khan

Pakistan’s Constitution guarantees education as a fundamental right. Article 25-A requires the State to “provide free and compulsory education to all children of the age of five to sixteen years in such manner as may be determined by law” (Constitution of Pakistan, 1973, art. 25-A). Article 38(d) directs the State to “provide basic necessities of life, such as food, clothing, housing,.

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“I was staying on 4 October 1954 at a hotel in London …I was pacing up and down the room when I said to myself: Let me put down my ideas in a military fashion: what is wrong with the country and what can be done to put things right”. This is how President Field Marshal Gen. Ayub Khan described, in his autobiography “Friends Not Masters”, germination of the idea of One Unit in his ‘fertile’ mind when he was Commander-in-Chief of Pakistan. Earlier in 1951, he had another brilliant idea calling for culling of goats and instead of rearing sheep to increase.

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