Education key to progress, prosperity: MPA Rabia Basri.

PESHAWAR -- Member Provincial Assembly (MPA) Rabia Basri on Monday underlined the need for taking tangible measures to promote quality education to prepare the students for contemporary and future challenges.

'Education is wealth like an ornament, but no one can steal it, and the nations which paid no attention to education remained backward,' the lady MPA said while addressing a ceremony held at a government primary school at Mohalla Jattan Yaktooh.

She was of the view that women who constituted almost half of the country's population played a key role in healthy personality development of children, so they should be given access to education to evolve a prosperous society, she added.

She also urged students to...