Grade 7 book seized in Punjab for printing Malala's image

 Grade 7 book seized in Punjab for printing Malala's image 





LAHORE: The Punjab Curriculum and Textbook Board (PCTB) on Monday seized the social examinations book for grade 7 distributed by the Oxford University Press (OUP) for printing the image of Malala Yousufzai close by that of 1965 conflict legend Maj Aziz Bhatti Shaheed in the rundown of significant characters. 


Photos of some significant characters had been distributed on page 33 of the book that included Quaid-I-Azam Muhammad Ali Jinnah, public artist Allama Iqbal, Sir Syed Ahmed Khan, Liaqat Ali Khan, incredible giver Abdul Sattar Edhi, Begum Raana Liaquat Ali Khan, Nishan-I-Haider beneficiary Maj Aziz Bhatti Shaheed and dissident Malala Yousufzai. 


As of now flowed in different instructive foundations, sources said the PCTB, police and different offices were directing assaults on shops across the city even at the time the report was documented to seize duplicates of the book for distributing Malala's image other than that of Aziz Bhatti. 


On Monday, a group of authorities initially led an assault on the OUP office in Mini Market, Gulberg and seized the whole load of the book. They additionally gave over a letter to the press, expressing that the book had not been given a No-Objection Certificate (NOC). 


One of the distributers on state of secrecy revealed to Dawn that the book had been submitted to the PCTB for an audit and to look for a NOC in 2019. The board, subsequent to surveying its substance, didn't support it for distributing. "The Oxford University Press has distributed the book notwithstanding not being given the NOC," he said. 


PCTB Managing Director Farooq Mazhar was not accessible for remarks till the documenting of this report, while its representative guaranteed the book was seized for being distributed without a NOC. 


Last year, the PCTB had restricted 100 course books it considered "against" the two-country hypothesis, or "untrustworthy and illicit". 


It had expressed that a portion of the books had not printed even the right date of birth of Quaid-I-Azam Muhammad Ali Jinnah and writer Allama Iqbal, while some others contained "impious material" and mistaken guides of the country. Likewise, there were 36 areas of Punjab, yet a portion of these books referenced 35. 


It had additionally restricted a booklet series, Infant Mathematics, purportedly distributed without its endorsement. The booklet was discovered to be disregarding Section 10 of the Punjab Curriculum and Textbook Board Act 2015

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