Pakistan halts funding to hundreds of 'ghost schools'

Pakistan authorities have stopped funding hundreds of educational institutions that existed only on paper and have fired 450 absentee teachers in a mission to close down the so-called ghost schools. Baloch officials vowed to launch a crackdown on the common practice in the southwestern province of Balochistan late on Tuesday. Raza Muhammed Khan Barrech, education adviser to the chief minister in Balochistan, told Al Jazeera that many teachers who were...