385SharesPunjab Textbook Board (PTB) has reportedly confiscated a Social Studies book showing Nobel laureate girls rights activist Malala Yousafzai as Pakistan’s national hero. Reporter Arshad Chaudhry wrote on Twitter that the ‘action’ was taken because the book showed Malala’s photo alongside that of 1965 war hero Major Aziz Bhatti. The entire stock of the textbook […]
Last week, the Federal Ministry of Education and Professional Training released a press note on their official Twitter account in a supposed bid to counter what in their opinion was a ‘concerted campaign’ to ‘discredit the remarkable effort made by the government to devise the much-hyped Single National Curriculum’ (SNC). The ministry went on to […]
1KSharesIn a bizarre incident, a reviewer of Punjab Curriculum and Textbook Board (PCTB) asked a publisher of a Science textbook to edit scientist Isaac Newton’s picture in the book, whom he mistook for a ‘lady’, and put a scarf on his head. In her The News column today, researcher Ayesha Razaqque made this unusual revelation. […]