Khyber Pakhtunkhwa government has launched a project to introduce AI-generated virtual clones of teachers in classrooms, using digital replicas of real educators faces and voices to deliver lessons in schools facing chronic staff shortages. The Parho Khyber Pakhtunkhwa initiative will use these AI teacher clones to cover 2,900 curriculum modules for grades six through twelve, including subjects such as physics, maths and Urdu. Officials say they will be able to ask questions directly to the virtual teachers and receive live responses, transmitted from a virtual school set up in Gulbahar, Peshawar. Selected pilot schools have been fitted with screens, cameras, microphones, internet connections and sound systems to receive these live sessions. The technology is being introduced mainly to address teacher shortages in remote regions including Bajaur, South Waziristan, North Waziristan and Bannu, where science teachers are especially scarce.