Shaping Pakistan's future through integrating financial literacy in curriculum

According to Business Recorder, NIBAF-P, operating under State Bank of Pakistan guidance, closed a two-day Inter-Provincial Curriculum Workshop in Karachi. The gathering drew curriculum specialists from every province, Azad Jammu & Kashmir, Gilgit-Baltistan and the federal curriculum wing. Participants agreed on roughly 180 unified financial literacy learning outcomes ready for formal adoption by national and provincial authorities.

The effort runs through the Financial Literacy Integration Project, which was set up after the Prime Minister's directive at a May 2024 education conference to bring money skills into schooling from the early years. Over the last two years it has worked with national, provincial and regional curriculum bodies on a shared approach. Project Director Salman Shehzad described the shift from standalone programmes toward a structured, curriculum-based model.

Nadeem Mahbub, Federal Secretary of the Ministry of Federal Education & Professional Training, attended as chief guest, while speakers stressed coordination, 21st century skills and financial inclusion. NIBAF-Pakistan's chief executive, Lubna Farooq Malik, pledged continued collaboration and said continuity would be key to turning reforms into learning outcomes.