Bilawal slams PTI govt over cut in HEC funding.

KARACHI: Pakistan People's Party (PPP) Chairman Bilawal Bhutto Zardari on Tuesday lambasted PTI government for its 'anti-education agenda' and warned that curtailment in funding of the Higher Education Commission (HEC) will lead to real consequences in the times of global pandemic.

Taking to Twitter, the PPP chairman criticised that the incumbent government had reduced HEC funding in the last year's budget and has refused to significantly raise funding this year too. "The PTI's consistent assault on HEC funding is having very real consequences at a time medical universities are at the frontline battling #covid. PTI cut HEC funding in last budget & refused to significantly raise funding in this years budget," the PPP leader wrote on Twitter.

Rebuking government's move of not increasing the funding of HEC during the times of pandemic, Bilawal said that the authorities have not even bothered to support medical universities and teaching hospitals in hard times when the country is suffering from the health...