PESHAWAR: The Elementary and Secondary Education Department in Pakistan’s north-western Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province is set to remove a whole chapter from a school textbook highlighting the contemporary issues, their causes and veiled hints towards the invisible elements responsible for creating such issues that have made the lives of people miserable in the region, according to sources.
The chapter titled “Da Maujoda Dor Masalay” (problems of the present age) in the Pashto book for grade-10 will be removed on the demand of Jamaat-i-Islami, they said. The chapter was included in the textbook by the previous ANP-led government to inform the students about the various issues engulfing society for the last many years, said the sources in the Education Department.
In the third paragraph on page 65 of the chapter it is stated that due to political instability millions of Afghans were forced to migrate to Pakistan and brought with them many problems that still existed. The text on page 66 conveys that “it is crystal clear that human beings have always used their power and inflicted brutalities on others in the process to impose their religious, political, national and economic supremacy on others.
In history whenever any group in any area on the earth started ruling by adopting such practices has left examples of brutality that has shamed human beings.”
Without naming any area or country, it is stated that the power game still continues which has caused huge losses to society. It further says that rich countries have been using all resources in the region for imposing their agenda and increasing influence in third world countries.
The students read in the chapter that the people of the third world countries getting financial support to fulfil their daily needs are being exploited intentionally or unintentionally, consciously or unconsciously by rich countries for their agenda.
“Such acts are apparently good and pious, full of benefits in this world and the life after death, but actually the planner behind such acts wanted to spread violence,” it is added.
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