...the Oyster Bay money pit...
) Special Envoy for Global Education
Gordon Brown... the hapless former British PM ...
said Wednesday that his office would closely monitor efforts, under the Safe Schools Initiative, to improve security at 1,000 schools in Pakistain.
He said that Prime Minister Muhammad Nawaz Sharif
... served two non-consecutive terms as prime minister, heads the Pakistain Moslem League (Nawaz). Noted for his spectacular corruption, the 1998 Pak nuclear test, border war with India, and for being tossed by General Musharraf...
had pledged his support to the move.
"We are going to monitor the implementation of safety measures at every school in Pakistain," Brown told a presser at UN Headquarters in New York.
Security fences, metal detectors, armed guards and emergency communication systems are part of a package of safety measures for Pakistain's schools being proposed by the UN envoy.
The former UK prime minister has held talks with Pakistain's prime minister Nawaz Sharif last month about making schools safer after the Beautiful Downtown Peshawar
...capital of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (formerly known as the North-West Frontier Province), administrative and economic hub for the Federally Administered Tribal Areas of Pakistan. Peshawar is situated near the eastern end of the Khyber Pass, convenient to the Pak-Afghan border. Peshawar has evolved into one of Pakistan's most ethnically and linguistically diverse cities, which means lots of gunfire.
school massacre.
Brown said he wants to help schools "stand up to terrorist violence".