Nobel Peace Prize laureate Malala Yousafzai pauses during an interview with Reuters at a local hotel in Islamabad on March 30, 2018. Reuters
LAHORE: The Punjab Curriculum and Textbook Board (PCTB) on Monday confiscated the social studies book for grade 7 published by the Oxford University Press (OUP) for printing the picture of Malala Yousufzai alongside that of 1965 war hero Maj Aziz Bhatti Shaheed in the list of important personalities.
Pictures of some important personalities had been published on page 33 of the book that included Quaid-i-Azam Muhammad Ali Jinnah, national poet Allama Iqbal, Sir Syed Ahmed Khan, Liaqat Ali Khan, legendary philanthropist Abdul Sattar Edhi, Begum Raana Liaquat Ali Khan, Nishan-i-Haider recipient Maj Aziz Bhatti Shaheed and activist Malala Yousufzai.
Punjab Textbook Board says it can’t restrict entire religious content to Islamiat
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April 24, 2021
ISLAMABAD: The Punjab Curriculum and Textbook Board (PCTB) has said that it can only implement the SC’s one-man commission’s direction calling for the exclusion of all religious content from different subjects and restricting it to Islamiat with the approval of the provincial cabinet, Muttahida Ulema Board (MUB) and National Curriculum Council (NCC).
In its letter written to the concerned authorities on April 20, 2021, the MD PCTB said that the ‘decision’ of the one-man commission, as conveyed to it by the HR and Minorities Department, was placed before the PCTB’s board in its 81st meeting on April 19.
Punjab Textbook Board says it can t restrict entire religious content to Islamiyat
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April 24, 2021
ISLAMABAD: The Punjab Curriculum and Textbook Board (PCTB) has said that it can only implement the SC’s one-man commission’s direction calling for the exclusion of all religious content from different subjects and restricting it to Islamiat with the approval of
the provincial cabinet, Muttahida Ulema Board (MUB) and National Curriculum Council (NCC).
In its letter written to the concerned authorities on April 20, 2021, the MD PCTB said that the ‘decision’ of the one-man commission, as conveyed to it by the HR and Minorities Department, was placed before the PCTB’s board in its 81st meeting on April 19.
The writer is an advocate of the Supreme Court of Pakistan.
Last week the federal government, as well as the governments of Punjab and Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, issued identical directives applicable to all public and private schools from the next academic year as regards teaching in grades one to five. Directives that will regulate teaching in the higher grades are expected soon enough.
These directives require all schools to teach from textbooks prescribed by the state as model textbooks. Other textbooks that realize the objectives of the Single National Curriculum (SNC) may be used only after approval by the designated government authorities. While the model textbooks are meant to lay down minimum learning outcomes that individual schools may exceed, the fact is that no other textbooks stand approved as of now.