Pakistan's educational sector has remained at the lowest level both in standard and allocation in budget by the  govt.Presently the literacy rate in Pakistan is 57%.Though India has world's largest illiterate population of any nation on the earth but its education sector cannot be said to be in decline with 74% literacy rate in 2011 from 12% at the end of British rule in 1947.China's situation in education is also greatly better than that of Pakistan.Even Iran has the literacy rate of 80%.This sharp contrast with the neighbouring countries in literacy rate has risen various questions as to how and why our educational sector still resting somewhere in decline even after 64 years.

The traditional definition of literacy is described as ''the ability to read and write correctly and think critically about some printed material.The quality of education in Pakistan cannot cope with the increasing challenges of today's world.Basic reason is considered as weak physical infrastructure of the educational institutions especially of the public sector.The quality of existing learning environment is evident from the facts that a large number of schools are missing basic infrastructure facilities i.e. 32% are without boundary walls, 33.6% without drinking water facility and around 60% are without electricity.

With this kind of weakness in infrastructure the education sector discourages the learners to get education in conductive environment,thus declining the standards of education at all levels.Another factor behind decline in education is the below average examination system and assessment process for the students.

The education system in Pakistan both at school and higher levels is impractical and lacks the ability to evaluate the true levels of learning of the students.Major issues in the examination system include leakage of the question papers,external assistance,smuggling of unauthorized material,ghost centres and irregulation of the supervision staff along with illegal ways of getting higher marks or getting better merit numbers.

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With these kind of menaces the absolute evaluation of the students becomes doubtful which gives way to frustration and sense of deprivation among the unprivileged class.People in power do discriminate.Nepotism is worshipped.Example of which is the case of the Chief Justice of Pakistan who got her daughter extra marks.According to an estimate,this action deprived 100,000 female students of their rights.Decline in education is inevitable with this kind of attitudes.