ABSTRACT
The outbreak of the famous Corona Virus in the world at the end of the year 2019 has triggered the world to bring major changes to the everyday walks of life. This virus entered Pakistan in February 2020 and resulted in the lockdown to be enforced throughout the country. Just as many other fields of life, the education sector also had to tolerate a massive hit of this closing down. The traditional approach of education based on the face-to-face interactions between the students and instructors went dependent on online platforms. This was a major and sudden switch, which was found extremely difficult throughout the world as well as in Pakistan. The concept of online education was not anything new. It prevailed earlier also, but that was the one conducted after proper planning, which was not at all in the case Covid-19. This research paper first discusses the perspectives of parents and teachers on the effectiveness of online education by qualitative approach. Secondly, the results of the conducted surveys are evaluated in the quantitative part of the paper. Further, the results of both the research types are compared to discuss and reason the overall scenario of online education in Pakistan. © 2023, The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG.