Punjab HR dept directs PCTB to shift all religious content from syllabus to Islamiyat Top Story April 22, 2021 ISLAMABAD: Punjab’s Human Rights and Minorities Affairs Department has asked the Punjab Curriculum and Textbook Board (PCTB) to exclude all Islamic content-- including hamd, naat and topics on the life of the Prophet (PBUH)-- from the textbooks of all subjects, including Urdu, English and General Knowledge, and shift the material to Islamiyat. Sources, however, confirm that this direction of the provincial HR department to the PCTB has been given without there being any decision on the matter by the provincial cabinet. The Punjab HR Department’s letter even ignored the Supreme Court, which has yet to take a decision on the proposed changes suggested by a one-man Minority Commission.