Government’s single national curriculum is like martial law
Geo.tv takes an inside look at the government s Single National Curriculum, feasibility of using it for Pakistani students
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Updated Monday May 03 2021
In the PTI government’s grand vision for a unified educational system for all of Pakistan, it seems that children of minority communities have no space.
Article 22 of the Constitution of Pakistan safeguards the rights of minorities and states that “no person attending any educational institution shall be required to receive religious instruction … if such instruction relates to a religion other than his/her own.”
Yet, Lahore-based public policy expert Peter Jacob and a team of educationalists have found that 9% of the content of the class 3 English textbook of the government’s recently introduced Single National Curriculum is in violation of Article 22.