Pakistan is facing an Education Emergency and the best way to improve the situation is the initiative of University students from around the world to connect to for ideas or innovations or well defined run and tested practices to turn around education in Pakistan and the following are the realities faced by Pakistan:

1. The economic cost of not educating Pakistan is the equivalent of one flood every year. The only difference is that this is a self-inflicted disaster.
2. One in ten of the world's out of school children is a Pakistani.  That is the equivalent of the entire population of Lahore.
3. There is a 0% chance that the government will reach the millennium development goals by 2015 on education. On the other hand, India, Bangladesh and Sri Lanka are all on their way to achieving the same goals. India's improvement rate is ten times that of Pakistan; Bangladesh's is twice that of Pakistan.
4. But, despite this gloomy situation, determined efforts can show results in only two years. What is required is an additional spending of Rs. 100 billion, a fifty percent increase over current spending.
5. Pakistani's have a constitutional right to universal education, a little discussed or known fact of the law. What has been overlooked in the discourse on the 18th Amendment is that education has now become a right and no longer a privilege as it was previously. Article 25a sets up a possible scenario where a citizen can take the government to court for not providing them access, or even be the grounds for a suo moto action.  
6. At current rates of progress, no person alive today will see a Pakistan with universal education as defined in our constitution.  Baluchistan would see it in 2100 or later.
7. Just one year of education for women in Pakistan can help reduce fertility by 10%, controlling the other resource emergency this country faces.
8. There are twenty-six countries poorer than Pakistan but send more of their children to school, demonstrating the issue is not about finances, but will and articulating demand effectively. It is too easy, and incorrect, to believe that Pakistan is too poor to provide this basic right.
9.  Pakistan spent 2.5% of its budget on schooling in 2005/2006. It now spends just 1.5% in the areas that need it most.  That is less than the subsidies given to PIA, PEPCO and Pakistan Steel. Provinces are allocated funds for education but fail to spend the money.
10. We presume the public school system is doing poorly because teachers are poorly paid, this is untrue. Public school teachers get paid 2/3rds more than their equivalent private low cost school counterparts; they earn four times that of the average parent of a child in their school. Despite this, on any given day 10-15% of teachers will be absent from their duties teaching.
11. There is demand for education that is partly being addressed by low cost private schools, even one third of all rural children go to these schools (public schools can cost Rs.150 per month, low cost private schools the same or up to Rs. 250). Despite the large presumption of the media, both domestic and international, this gap is not actually being addressed by Madrasahs'. Only 6% of students go to Madrasahs'.
12. Only 35% of school children, aged 6-16, can read a story, while 50% cannot read a sentence. Their performance is only slightly better than that of out-of-school children, of whom 24% can read a story. This alarmingly demonstrates the ineffectiveness of schooling.
13. 30,000 school buildings are in dangerous condition, posting a threat to the well being of children. Whereas 21,000 schools have no building whatsoever.
14. Donors are not the solution, while they grab headlines regarding their development work, government spend remains the majority by an overwhelming margin.