KABUL (Pajhwok): The United Nations Educational and Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) on Sunday said there were 11 million illiterate people in Afghanistan.
UNESCO representative in Afghanistan, Patricia McPhillips, attended a gathering in Kabul that appreciated work of some non-governmental organizations (NGOs) in the area of literacy.
Patricia McPhillips criticized the Afghan government’s lack of attention towards remote areas and said illiteracy had not been a priority of the government in the past 15 years.
She said currently there were 11 million illiterate people, a majority of them women, in Afghanistan . . .
