Pakistan, April 29 -- On a humid morning in Islamabad, a young graduate stands in a long queue outside the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, clutching a folder that contains the sum of his aspirations: transcripts, degrees, identity documents. He has already spent years in classrooms, passed examinations, and paid fees his family could barely afford. Yet today, he waits not for a job or opportunity, but for verification-a stamp, a signature, permission for his education to be believed. This ritual, repeated daily across Pakistan, is more than an administrative procedure; it is a quiet indictment of a system that does not trust its own output, and in doing so, erodes the dignity of those it produces. Pakistan's education crisis is often framed ...