Three Million Children

Baluchistan's Education Minister cannot count the province's missing students. A civic-tech organization with undisclosed foreign funding arrived in May 2026 to map the gap.

Three million children are not in school in Baluchistan. That number was disclosed by the Baluchistan Education Minister herself, Raheela Hameed Khan Durrani, standing at a government-convened event, reading from her own ministry’s figures. She called it the province’s biggest challenge. Then she said something that did not make headlines anywhere: her …