Pakistan bans 100 books saying they contain ‘anti-national and blasphemous’ content – education

The Curriculum & Textbook Board of Punjab, Pakistan’s largest province when it comes to inhabitants and its variety of faculties, has banned round 100 books being taught in non-public faculties on grounds that they contained “anti Pakistan in addition to blasphemous” content.

Board Managing Director Rai Manzoor Hussain Nasir instructed a press convention in Lahore that these books had distorted information about Pakistan and its creation, proven Quaid-e-Azam Muhammad Ali Jinnah and Allama Muhammad Iqbal in a destructive gentle and additionally in some cases carried blasphemous content like utilizing pigs to elucidate ideas.

A lot of the banned books have been both imported or domestically printed by overseas publishers. Nasir stated that in some books “Pakistan was portrayed as an inferior nation to India whereas Azad Jammu & Kashmir (AJK) was additionally proven as a part of India in maps in a few of these books.” He stated that this was unacceptable and that it was a conspiracy to poison the minds of kids in Pakistan.

He added “as an alternative of together with sayings of Quaid-e-Azam Muhammad Ali Jinnah and Allama Muhammad Iqbal, and many others. one of many books carried sayings of Mahatma Gandhi and some unknown folks.” He famous that it was not proper to glorify Gandhi on the one hand and to downplay Pakistan’s nationwide heroes on the opposite.

In a e book of Arithmetic, counting ideas have been being defined to the younger college students exhibiting photos of pigs, which was unacceptable. In one other occasion, he stated one of many books tried to advertise crime and violence among the many college students primarily based on unemployment within the nation.

The textbook board had began a essential evaluation of 10,000 books being taught by non-public faculties throughout the province and within the first section had banned 100 books from 31 publishers.

For this goal, it had fashioned 30 committees after which 100 books had been instantly banned and the publishers had been directed to cease publishing and promoting the books.