Every morning, a teacher walks into a classroom carrying more than books. There are crowded benches, restless minds and the quiet burden of shaping futures. Yet beyond the classroom walls, where policies are drafted and decisions are made, that same teacher is nowhere to be found. This is the paradox of Pakistan’s education system. Those who give life to policy are rarely allowed to give it voice.

Educational policymaking in Pakistan is largely an elite exercise. It takes shape in conference rooms, policy briefs and consultancy reports. Academics, bureaucrats and development partners lead the conversation. Their perspectives matter. But the absence of the classroom teacher leaves a silence at the heart of the system, a silence that no data set can fully........

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