Education and human resource development always remained ignored sector in the province and the leaders, barring a few, gave right importance to this sector since Balochistan was given the status of a province of Pakistan. Till 1970 Balochistan was denied the status of a province though it was more than half of Pakistan and two junior officers ruled the two Divisions—Quetta and Kalat—for decades.  During the first phase of Pakistan Commissioners who ruled Balochistan gave no importance to education or human resource development for lack of vision or with a deliberate move to keep Balochistan illiterate, backward and the ignored region of Pakistan. The successor Governments in power could not spare enough time to concentrate on giving right place to education, mainly the female education in remote parts of the Province. After Sardar Ataullah Mengal, the Chief Ministers belonged to minority groups in the provincial parliament and they were blackmailed and kept under the threat of removal by the pressure Government termed allies in the Government. Thus most of the time had been spent in retain power, keeping the Government intact and pleasing the pressure groups conceding all their demands, legitimate or illegitimate.

However, little efforts were made to improve the situation by establish girls’ schools and colleges in different areas  and main concentration continued on the provincial Capital as a sizable population of better educated residing in Quetta city. They had also considerable influence on the Governments/administration in getting better facilities comparatively for the most backward and far flung regions. Thus most of the facilities were confined to Quetta. Finally, the lone Women University had also been established in Quetta while the Government failed to open a reasonable number of schools and colleges for the girls in remote parts of Balochistan. There are growing complaints both from parents and students that most of the girl schools are becoming ghost schools and very limited numbers of teachers are performing their duties. Overwhelming majority of the teachers is not performing their duties even in the suburbs of the Provincial Capital. In other words, the laws of the land are being defied and flouted under the nose of the rulers, both political masters and senior bureaucrats. The Government should launch a serious crackdown on those ghost teachers absent from their duties even in Quetta city and its surroundings and later on extend this campaign to rest parts of Balochistan.

Since the drop-out rate from the schools in Balochistan is very high comparing with the other provinces, the Government should establish residential schools with better teaching and other facilities to both male and female students in remote regions. The Government should allocate funds specially for establishing residential schools in various parts of Balochistan and complete it within five year period. If there is fund shortage, the Government should MPA funds for this purpose ending the waste spending of precious resources for education and human resource development.  The Federal Government should come to help Balochistan in a big way for announcing a development package for the Baloch Mainland where human resource development and basic education should be given greater importance besides establishing industrial units and promoting agro-based industries in remote areas. In the past, the Federal Government had deliberately ignored the Baloch Mainland in all respects and development funds given to Balochistan were spent in and around Quetta or far away from the Baloch Mainland as a matter of policy. Development funds in the name of Balochistan were not spent in the Baloch Mainland which left a strong sense of deprivation. Thus the Provincial Government should use its good offices and prevail upon the Federal Government in seeking a big development package exclusively for the Baloch Mainland so that the backward regions are brought at par with the developed areas of Pakistan.