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Urdu 8 KPK SNC 2023

Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Textbook Board, Peshawar

Bibliographic record

BoardKhyber Pakhtunkhwa Textbook Board, Peshawar
Class8
SubjectUrdu
MediumUrdu
CurriculumSNC / NCP 2022
Edition2022-23
ApprovalDCTE KP letter 2413-17/SNC/2022/Urdu dated 12-05-2022
Pages95
File size43.6 MB
PDF producerPDFsharp 1.32.2608-g (www.pdfsharp.net) (Original

Analysis

The most degraded file in the corpus, with more than half its pages producing unusable text; its contents page survives only as a learning-outcomes column, from which two lesson titles leaked. What did come through is a 2022-curriculum reader that still runs a martial spine: a Kargil martyrdom narrative in which the martyr's body is taken by Indian forces with his rifle still in his grip and the state awards him the Nishan-e-Haider, plus a separate army-valour piece citing Indian press praise for Pakistani soldiers. The substance of those lessons is recoverable, the wording is not, and nothing here may be quoted. A1 3 comes from a hamd and naat opening followed by the Farewell Sermon, and from an al-Khwarizmi profile. A7 5 is explicitly not established. This is the book on which absence claims carry the least weight anywhere in the study, and a researcher should treat its lesson inventory as demonstrably incomplete rather than merely uncertain.

Evidence tier

scanned   Urdu/Sindhi OCR — theme-grade only. Structure and proper nouns, never wording. Nothing in this book is quoted anywhere in the study.

Measured scores

A1 Religious saturation 3
A5 Militarism 4
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 3

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.

observation religion lens A1 = 3 Urdu OCR — theme-grade #e01

Hamd/naat then the Khutba-e-Hajjat-ul-Wida; al-Khwarizmi profile. Badly degraded file.

observation patriotism lens A5 = 4 PDF p. 33 Urdu OCR — theme-grade #e02

Theme-grade, worst-OCR file in the corpus. A Kargil martyrdom narrative — the martyr's body taken by Indian forces, his rifle still in his grip; "the Government of Pakistan awarded him the honour of Nishan-e-Haider" (urdu-8-ur · pp.33–34; substance recoverable, wording not). Also the army-valour piece citing Indian press praise ([track urdu](/studies/track-urdu/) §2.11)

absence gender lens A7 = 5 Urdu OCR — theme-grade #e03

Most degraded file in the corpus; not established

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.

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 1

Militarismmedium confidence

KP's entire martial load sits in its Urdu reader and stops after class 8. Its English-medium pupils never meet it. Sindh has no military martyr anywhere in its corpus; its only shaheed is a civilian doctor.

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.

Availability of the book itself

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Provenance

Local filekptbb-kp/class-8/urdu-8-ur.pdf
Copy retrieved
SHA-256 of the analysed file0645ca17353ea6cbd41fe395013f3a8f9932a4c6f79a2eb25e0c5617d41bcd59
Sourcehttps://drive.google.com/uc?export=download&id=1wGy4t4pHeRelE3irsFixJvWmIrEawHVg

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Identifiers and permanent link

Record IDkptbb-urdu-8-ur
Permanent link/books/kptbb-urdu-8-ur/
This record as data/books/kptbb-urdu-8-ur.json · whole dataset

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Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Textbook Board, Peshawar, Urdu 8 KPK SNC 2023, 2022-23. Catalogued by the Textbook Evidence Project as kptbb-urdu-8-ur, corpus version 210 records. Retrieved from /books/kptbb-urdu-8-ur/

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