The contents of Pakistani schoolbooks have come under precise critical observation or examination, specifically after the happenings of 9/11. As many researchers and political analyst have noted, there is substantial material in our textbooks that promotes practice of deliberately preventing the facts, while the inadequate way of historical facts has left generations of Pakistanis bewildered and showing an inadequate awareness of the facts about the past and its impact on the present.
On the other hand, the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa education division has definite to eliminate content from a grade 10 Pashto book that deliberates the problems argumentative intent society.
The made as of right for removal of the chapter came from the Jamaat-i-Islami, the PTI’s junior partner in the KP alliance government reportedly the Jamaat put massive pressure on Imran Khan’s party to eliminate the material, amongst other demands, point out that it would or else take out its support.
Formerly this year, the Jamaat had also protested to material in KP schoolbooks that comprised pictures of Christmas cakes and girls no need of dupattas.
KP is not the only province where political meddling in the writing and editing of educational texts happens; the habitual method is feast whole over the country.
Just about all political parties interfere with curricula when in power to suit ideological relating to or believing in a religion pressures, with the JI following ‘Islamisation’ of education with particular zeal. However, the results of this interfering have been worrying in a place of authorizing young minds with the spirit of appraisal.
If anything, schoolchildren need to be fortified to discuss the world around them so that they can realize and provide somewhere to stay different points of view. The writing and editing of schoolbooks should be not here to educationists and academics and must be completely at liberty from political interference. The PTI, in specific, which talks of a ‘Naya Pakistan’, must comprehend this in the province it rubrics.
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