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Pakistan Studies 9 EM KPK

Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Textbook Board, Peshawar

Bibliographic record

BoardKhyber Pakhtunkhwa Textbook Board, Peshawar
Class9
SubjectPakistan Studies
MediumEnglish
CurriculumNational Curriculum 2006
Editionprinted 2024-25
ApprovalFederal Curriculum Wing letter F.6-8/2009-SSG dated 28-05-2010 — print run, not a new edition
Pages103
File size19.7 MB
PDF producerPDF Annotator 9.0.0.920 [PDFsharp 1.32.2608-g (www.pdfsharp.net)]

Analysis

A four-chapter Pakistan Studies approved by the Federal Curriculum Wing in 2010 and printed for the 2024-25 academic year, so its modern-looking stamp is a print run over a fifteen-year-old text. English-medium and therefore quotable, it is the most evidentially rich book in the KP set and the most internally divided. Its 1971 chapter indicts Pakistan's own rulers, naming a never-ending military dictatorship, the Awami League being deprived of power, innocent citizens killed in the military action, and a counterfactual in which the last governor of East Pakistan urged a political solution and was ignored. The word enemy occurs once in the whole book and refers to the Pakistan Army. Yet the same chapter retains a section headed on the negative role of Hindu teachers and adds a unique claim that America secretly supported the separation, which is why A6 splits between 4 for Hindus as a bloc and 1 for its warm section on Pakistani minorities. A3 is 5: zero source vocabulary and two inquiry verbs in 26,000 words. Women appear once in 24,912 words, in a book a woman co-wrote.

Evidence tier

scanned   English OCR — quotation permitted after re-verification by exact string match.

Measured scores

A1 Religious saturation 4
A2 Civic thickness 4
A3 Received truth 5
A4 Narrative closure 3
A6 Othering 2
A7 Gender conservatism 5

Axes not listed were not scored for this book — coverage is uneven by design. All axes run 1–5, where 1 is the secular/pluralist/open pole. See the method.

Evidence recorded 8

Three kinds, deliberately styled apart. A quotation is verbatim wording and is only ever taken from English-medium text. An observation describes structure or theme — the only kind permitted for Urdu and Sindhi material, which this project never quotes. An absence is a negative result: a probe was run and returned nothing, which is the weakest claim made anywhere on this site.

quotation religion lens A1 = 4 PDF p. 6 English OCR #e01

Ch.1 Ideological Basis of Pakistan opens the book: "Pakistan came into being on the basis of an ideology. That is why Pakistan is called an ideological state" · PAGE 6; "The ideology of Pakistan was simultaneously a religious, political and economic ideology" · PAGE 7. Density 15.11/1,000.

absence civics lens A2 = 4 PDF p. 77 English OCR #e02

Constitutions appear only as constitution-making history, ending in 1971. The book's sole rights enumeration is attributed to the dead 1956 constitution in the past tense: "Constitution conferred equal basic rights to all citizens. These rights include right to safety of life and property, freedom of expression, freedom of gathering and right to serve." PAGE 77. The 1973 Constitution is not taught here at all. Zero hits for Senate, separation of powers, UDHR, civil society, free press, minority rights

A negative result. It records that a probe was run and found nothing — not that the thing is not in the book. Where this rests on Urdu material the correct reading is not established, never absent, because degraded Nastaliq OCR cannot tell those apart.

absence history lens A3 = 3 PDF p. 12 English OCR #e03

Zero source vocabulary; 2 inquiry-verb hits in 26k words. Two-Nation dated conventionally: "Sir Syed Ahmad Khan was the first political leader who expounded the idea that Hindus and Muslims are two separate nations" (pakistan-studies-9-en · PAGE 12), triggered by the 1867 Banaras anti-Urdu movement. 1971 indicts Pakistan's own rulers: "a never ending military dictatorship was becoming strong in the country. Awami League, the wining party of 1970 elections was deprived of the power by one pretext or another. The result was the separation of East Pakistan" (PAGE 94); "Many innocent citizens along with the Armed persons were killed in the military action. As a result people of East Pakistan became enemies of the Army" (PAGE 94); and uniquely, a named counterfactual — "Last Governor of the East Pakistan, Dr. M.M. Malik, advised President General Yahya Khan to solve the matter through political Means, but his proposals were not taken into account" (PAGE 94). Held at 3 by the retained "NEGATIVE ROLE OF HINDU TEACHERS" cause (PAGE 95), a unique anti-American conspiracy cause — "the process of separation of East Pakistan was secretly supported by America" (PAGE 95) — and "India by force separated East Pakistan" (PAGE 92). Surrender not named.

A negative result. It records that a probe was run and found nothing — not that the thing is not in the book. Where this rests on Urdu material the correct reading is not established, never absent, because degraded Nastaliq OCR cannot tell those apart.

quotation othering lens A6 = 4 PDF p. 95 English OCR #e04

Bloc characterisation, one section-heading deep: "7. NEGATIVE ROLE OF HINDU TEACHERS — After establishment of Pakistan, unfortunately, Bangali Muslims had always been backward in education than Hindus. The Hindu teachers were in majority in schools and colleges. They prepared the minds of new generations to rebel against the ideology of Pakistan." (p.95). Also "the Hindu majority and the anti-Muslim [Congress]" (p.13); "the permanent domination of Hindu[s]" (p.24); "for Muslims to finish the Hindu Muslim enmity forever" (p.19) — though that same page adds "Interestingly, this idea was supported by some Hindu leaders including Lala Lajpat Rai."

quotation othering lens A6 = 1 PDF p. 11 English OCR #e05

Under a heading "6. EQUAL RIGHTS OF MINORITIES": "The Pakistani Hindus, Sikhs, Christians, Parsees and followers of other religions are working for the progress and stability of Pakistan, shoulder to shoulder, with their Muslim Pakistani compatriots. Many among them are serving on important posts in different government departments including the Armed Forces of Pakistan. The patriotism of these Non-Muslim Pakistani citizens has become a model and example for other nations of the world." (p.11). Also concedes, in the ideology chapter, that pre-1947 "not just Muslims but other minorities and low caste Hindus were also treated unequally" (p.9).

quotation othering lens A6 = 3 PDF p. 95 English OCR #e06

Adversary but not demonised, and blame is distributed: India armed and trained the refugees, but "the process of separation of East Pakistan was secretly supported by America" (p.95). "enemy" occurs once in the whole book — and it refers to the Pakistan Army: "people of East Pakistan became enemies of the Army" (p.94).

quotation othering lens A6 = 2 PDF p. 94 English OCR #e07

Grievance legitimate, blame internal: "Awami League, the wining party of 1970 elections was deprived of the power by one pretext or another. The result was the separation of East Pakistan"; "Many innocent citizens along with the Armed persons were killed in the military action." (p.94)

observation gender lens A7 = 5 English OCR #e08

women occurs once in 24,912 words; every other female token is a personified nation or party (§1.3a)

Every passage recorded for this book is shown above — nothing is withheld or truncated. Each item has a permanent anchor, so a single piece of evidence can be linked and disputed on its own.

Findings that cite this book 5

Historyhigh confidence

Punjab externalises the loss of East Pakistan almost entirely and never mentions the surrender. Khyber Pakhtunkhwa indicts its own military rule. Sindh is the only board in the corpus that prints the word "surrendered".

Otheringhigh confidence

The claim that Hindu schoolteachers turned Bengali children against Pakistan appears in all three scored boards, in editions from 2004, 2023 and 2024–25 alike. It is the corpus's most durable sentence-level inheritance and the strongest evidence that these are divergent editions of one older federal text.

Methodhigh confidence

Punjab's higher narrative closure survives three vintage-matched comparisons, so it is not an artefact of old books awaiting revision. The boards' older books converge; it is Punjab's recent revision that diverges upward — and Punjab has since reissued class 10 again under a 2026 syllabus.

Inquiryhigh confidence

In every board, regardless of curriculum generation, inquiry apparatus falls away at classes 9 and 10 — precisely when pupils are old enough to handle contested questions.

Otheringhigh confidence

On minorities within Pakistan, all boards sit at the tolerant end — the clearest shared positive norm the study found. The West is not an out-group at all: Britain functions as a purely historical adversary.

A finding states and cites; it does not argue. The argument is in the studies. Where a finding has counter-evidence it is printed above, in the same block, because a finding that hides its counter-evidence is a worse finding rather than a stronger one.

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Provenance

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Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Textbook Board, Peshawar, Pakistan Studies 9 EM KPK, printed 2024-25. Catalogued by the Textbook Evidence Project as kptbb-pakistan-studies-9-en, corpus version 210 records. Retrieved from /books/kptbb-pakistan-studies-9-en/

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