[DAWN] The contents of Pak textbooks have come under particular scrutiny, especially after the events of 9/11. As many scholars and analysts have noted, there is considerable material in our schoolbooks that promotes obscurantism, while the fudging of historical facts has left generations of Paks confused and ill-informed about the past and its impact on the present.
And most efforts at reform have met with stiff resistance from certain quarters that prefer their own hard-line ideas. In the latest case, the Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa
... formerly NWFP, still Terrorism Central...
education department has decided to remove content from a grade 10 Pashto book that discusses the problems confronting society. |