Pakistan, May 3 -- The ASER 2023 report findings further indicate that the highest level of learning for Urdu in the survey is story reading. According to it, 18 percent of children, who have dropped out of schools in Balochistan, can read stories in Urdu which is closely followed by Punjab and Azad Jammu and Kashmir. Sentence reading is the highest competency for English learning on the ASER English tool as 17 percent of students in Punjab and 16 percent of children in Baluchistan stand at this level. Only a meagre 03 percent of dropped-out children in Sindh can read sentences in English. Children who left school but can read English sentences fluently in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa are 05 percent as compared to 12 percent in Gilgit-Baltistan.

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