According to the Sustainable Development Policy Institute, Pakistan's textbooks among the nations school system have systematically inculcated as being anti-Indian discriminatory through historical omissions & deliberately been a bit of misinformation since as far back as the 1970s.
[6] According to the Sustainable Development Policy Institute, as far back as the 1970's, the Pakistan textbooks within the public education system have systematically inculcated prejudice towards India, as well as Hindus through historical revisionism.
[14] The discoveries highlight the pervasive influence of the radical Islam procurement within the Pakistan nation & is a shedding light on a number of reasons behind the tendency to support, tolerate & or possibly condone terrorism.
[18] While some pan-Islamic ideologists locate the time-frame to correspond with the birth of Islam on the Arabian Peninsula & intentionally choose to ignore the spatial while temporal distance between the two non-concerted happenings, others have opted for a sub-continental approach.
[18] An Introduction to Pakistan Studies, (a popular text-book which is compulsory reading for first and second year college students studying for an Fine Arts (FA) degree in history), claims that Pakistan is an Islamic State, governed by Allah & is not a mere geographical entity but more of an ideology reflecting a unique civilization and or culture that was born of an effort to resist the imposition of Hindu Nationalism on any Muslim masses to ward the unethical practices of Hinduism.
[18] K. Ali's two volume history designed for Bachelor of Arts (BA) students, even whilst tracing the pre-history of the Indo-Pakistan subcontinent to the Paleolithic discussion of the Dravidian peoples as well as the Aryans, consistently refers to the post 1947 era of frontiers of the Pakistan nation.
[19] According to Tufts University, professor Seyyed Vali Reza Nasr, Indophobia among the Pakistan nation increased with the ascendancy of the militant Islamist Jamaat-e-Islami while under the regime of Sayyid Abul Ala Maududi.
In propagating concepts, such as, but not limited to jihad, that being the inferiority of any non-Muslims & India's perceived ingrained enmity with Pakistan, among many, that the textbook board publications utilized within all government education to promote an obscurantist mindset.
Former military dictator, Muhammad Zia-ul-Haq, under a general drive towards Islamization, initially began this process, of historical revisionism, in earnest & did exploit the initiative, according to an opinion piece from The Guardian, written by Afnan Khan[21] The Pakistani establishment instilled at a young & impressionable age that this state was built on the basis of religion, hence being the reason for the extremely low tolerance for any other religions & any want, need & or desire to attempt to end all of them.
[26] The first being that the selection of material & the thematic sequence in the textbooks present Islam to not just simply as a belief system, but more of an actual political ideology & a grand, unifying worldview required be accepted by all Pakistan citizens.
The next being to sanctify this Islamic ideology as an article of faith considering that the textbooks distort actual historical facts about the nation's cultural as well as its political heritage.
Very little is mentioned of subjects such as: critical thinking, civic participation & or democratic values like freedom of speech, equality & or dual respect for & of any cultural diversity.
The study reported that the textbooks also contained a many gender-biased segments & other perspectives that encouraging prejudice, bigotry & discrimination towards their fellow Pakistanis & other nations, with a targeted acknowledgment against most religious minorities.
"[27] Referring to the National Council of Education Research & Training (NCERT) with their extensive review of textbooks in India in 2004, Verghese, considered the erosion of plural & of democratic values in the textbooks within India's education systems & the distortion of history in Pakistan which was to imply a necessity for coordination among the Bangladeshi, Indian & Pakistani historians in an effort to accurately produce a composite history of the subcontinent, as a common South Asian reader.
[9] In June of 2021, the Pakistani government closed down eight (8) Iranian schools in Quetta, despite a thirty (30) year old Memorandum of Understanding, for (alleged) teachings of an unauthorized foreign curriculum in the Persian language.
[36] Professor Marwat previously blamed General Zia for what he stated as "sowing seeds of discord in society on religious & ethnic lines by stuffing school curriculum with material that promoted hatred now manifested in the shape of extremism, intolerance, militancy, sectarianism, dogmatism & fanaticism".
In addition, he also stated, "after the Indo-Pakistani War of 1965, countless lessons & chapters were introduced that spread hatred among the students & portrayed India as the biggest enemy of the Muslims.
[39][44] According to Huma Yusuf, the Single National Curriculum (SNC) has caused controversy & a number of issues that are due to the narrowly defined religious & nationalist identity in which poorly understands the values of ethnolinguistic diversity & inclusion.
[40] Akhter also says that the new SNC policy fails to take into account the possibility of further radicalization of Pakistani private & or public schools, because of a curriculum that is heavily influenced by retrogressive ideological biases & distortions.
[47] Meanwhile, the Federal Education Ministry (FEM) clarified that these media claims & criticism were merely speculative of religious inspection & corrections of science books, since the subject of Biology is taught from grade 9 onwards & the SNC is still to be implemented at a senior education level,[42][48] however a reporter for Zenger News & Furqan Mahmood, manager of the Lahore-based publisher Urdu Bazar Depot, concurred with the claims made by Fawaz Niaz.
[51] Razzaque went on to say that the new Single National Curriculum (SNC) also restricts the freedom of private schools to teach science to students beginning at an early age.
[51] Pervez Hoodbhoy stated that the new Single National Curriculum (SNC) surpasses previous censorship involving human evolution from academic studies & in Pakistan, the nation which consumes high levels of pornography and instances of Madrasah teachers engaging in child sexual abuse; scientific teaching of human biology through requisite educational images is being shunned with extended enforcement of religious modesty on the school curriculum.
[39] Any textbook or curriculum on religion with contents or matter related to Islam, including Islamiyat, history, Pakistan studies, Urdu, literature & or any other subject material related to religion, shall not be published before taking prior approval from the Muttahida Ulema Board, Punjab and the Punjab Curriculum and Textbook Board shall be bound to take such approval from Muttahida Ulema Board, Punjab.In an anecdote claimed to be truthful, by Dr. Ayesha Razzaque, within a science textbook picture, scientist Isaac Newton was shown wearing a long garment, likely having long hair & or wearing a wig, next to a tree depicting, the well known scientific legend in relation to the moment an apple fell.
One of the comments from the Punjab Curriculum and Textbook Board (Pakistan) PCTB review of the book, was that the lady in the picture be edited to add a hijab upon her head, as to observe the appropriate purdah traditions.
Muslims are convinced they possess the only true religion & that Arabic is the only perfect language with claims of an eternal monopoly over actual truth & that amounts to simply narcissism, but on a civilisational scale.
While simply in a new form of escapism, Pakistan is busy creating new narcissistic illusions that seek solace through this hero-worshipping of the fictionalised Ertugrul drama series & making up a Turkic-Islamic past for itself.
[56] The practical implementation of a Single National Curriculum (SNC) has been publicized & made a part of the new syllabus of the Punjab School Education Department for grades one (1) through five (5).
The Punjab government has issued a mandate to the Quaid-e-Azam Academy for Educational Development (QAED) for organizing & managing the training of public & private teachers.
The new curriculum committee requires necessary improvements, which shall include but shall not be limited to topics such as: modules on human rights, equality, proper hygiene & other practical issues; for example sexual health & consent from secondary level education onward.
[59][60] On the same day,[61] according to Imran Gabol, PCTB confiscated social studies textbooks of standard seven, published by Oxford University Press, allegedly for printing the picture of Malala Yousufzai on a list of important personalities.