"The Subtle Subversion: The State of Curricula and Textbooks in Pakistan"

SOUTH ASIAN CITIZENS MUST PROTESTELSE THEY SHOULD ADMIT THAT THEY ARE "DHIMMIS"
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Compiled by A. H. Nayyar and Ahmed Salim.
Sustainable Development Policy Institute.
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REVIEW BY RAJIV MALHOTRA:
The 148-page report on Pakistani school textbooks, recently out from
an NGO in Pakistan, is an eye-opener. It shows that Saudi-funded
Madrassas are not the only jihad-factories. Textbooks used by the
Pakistan Govt. (the vast majority of schools are government run) also
contain similar material.
The report explains that every Pakistani who has been educated in
these schools in the past 20 years (i.e. anyone who is not older than
in their mid 30s) has had a heavy dose of state sponsored anti India
and anti Hindu/Sikh misinformation.
This curriculum started only from the time of Gen. Zia, when the
term "Ideology of Pakistan" was constructed for the first
time. This
is essentially an Islamist ideology, which hopes to establish the
identity of Pakistanis as being culturally different than Indians by
viewing Indians as enemies and as inferior. The report shows how the
mandatory Urdu language curriculum, from the earliest school years
till 12th grade, is used as a vehicle to instill an Islamist
worldview.
Lesson plans explicitly depict Hindus as bad people who hate and kill
Muslims, who burn their women in sati, etc. The Urdu curriculum
emphasizes that students must understand the importance of jehad, and
must learn to praise the glory of famous jehadis and Islamic martyrs.
Another central part of the Urdu program is for students to be able
to make assertive speeches on Pakistan's positions on Kashmir and
other matters.
The curriculum specifically demands that teachers should not allow
criticism of Pakistan, or its Ideology as presented in the curriculum.
According to the History curriculum, Pakistan began when Muslims
invaded the subcontinent, i.e. before the 13th century.
Pakistan's
territory included all of Afghanistan, present-day Pakistan, North
India and parts of Deccan, and present-day Bangladesh. Only under the
British did things deteriorate for this nation of Pakistan, as it was
the Partition by the British that denied Pakistan its right to
recover the entire pre-colonial Mughal Empire as its.
SO PAKISTAN = MUGHAL EMPIRE, IN THIS CURRICULUM.
Therefore, when I wrote in an essay that Pakistani identity is
drifting towards a sort of Mughalistan, I wonder why Prof. Sugata
Bose and Homi Bhabha called a special meeting at Harvard to denounce
this as "fundamentalism." Should they not be reading the
Pakistan
Government's own textbooks, to be better informed of the subject
matter?
This report will become an important reference in the debates on
South Asia, on Gen Musharraf, and on US policies towards Pakistan. It
may be downloaded in its entirety at (you need Adobe Acrobat):

http://www.infinityfoundation.com/mandala/society_resources_frameset.h
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Every South Asian desi must read this report to reconsider his/her
basic premises. Every US think-tank must wonder if the aid to
Pakistan would be better spent if benchmarks for educational reform
were preconditions. Every Indian journalist must ask why they have
been ignorant of all this for the past 20 years. Every US media (CNN,
Fox, NY Times, W. Post, etc.) must wonder why they did not raise
questions to the General, using the facts and quotes from this
report, in their interviews. The Indian Embassy must ask whether it
had been asleep all these years. India's Education Ministry that
is
supposed to track educational trends must ask why it did not
commission such studies all these years.
South Asian human rights activists, specializing in India-bashing,
must introspect why they have failed to debate these facts with the
same vigor as they debate communalism in India – BOTH need to be
challenged equally.
Infinity Foundation was close to launching a large research project
that was to be carried out by Pakistani scholars, on this very
subject of analyzing Pakistani school textbooks. But since we just
came across this excellent report a few days ago, we feel that it
deserves to be read and discussed widely, and we have shelved our
plans for a fresh report for the moment.
To get complete report visit this

http://www.sdpi.org/what%27s_new/reporton/State%20of%20Curr&Textbooks(final-BB).pdf

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