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Pakistan Studies EM 2023-24 Class 10

Punjab Curriculum and Textbook Board, Lahore

Bibliographic record

BoardPunjab Curriculum and Textbook Board, Lahore
Class10
SubjectPakistan Studies
MediumEnglish
CurriculumSNC 2022
Edition2022-23
ApprovalSingle National Curriculum 2022, Experimental Edition
Pages112
File size15.1 MB
PDF producerCorel PDF Engine Version 24.1.0.360

Analysis

Native digital text, marked "Experimental Edition", chapters numbered 5 to 8 continuing the class-9 book: History of Pakistan 1971 to date, World Affairs, Economic Development, and Population, Society and Culture. Content reaches the 2018 elections, the most current Pakistan Studies volume examined. Its notable feature is A6 1, the corpus maximum for inclusion: the section "Contribution and Achievements of Minorities in Nation Building" (pp.106-108) quotes the 11 August 1947 speech including the usually cut passage about Hindus ceasing to be Hindus, then runs an honour roll from A.R. Cornelius and Rana Bhagwan Das to Cecil Chaudhry, Ruth Pfau and Danish Kaneria, plus a section on interfaith harmony (p.99). It has a Christian co-author, Prof. Anjum James Paul, and a Sikh reviewer, and is also reviewed by the Nazaria-e-Pakistan Trust. A3 5 and A4 4: it narrates coups factually, "General Pervez Musharraf overthrew the PML-N government", but euphemises and never criticises, and Zia's rule is a catalogue of reforms. A2 3 is Punjab's densest institutional content, delivered as a regime-by-regime achievement chronicle. A7 3: the widest professional list in the corpus, on the premise that "Nature assigned separate roles".

Evidence tier

native   Machine-readable text — supports direct quotation.

Measured scores

A1 Religious saturation 3
A2 Civic thickness 2
A3 Received truth 4
A4 Narrative closure 4
A5 Militarism 2
A6 Othering 3
A7 Gender conservatism 3

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 1

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 history lens A3 = 4 native text #e01

1 evaluation verb and 0 open prompts across 40,835 words.

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.

Availability of the book itself

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Provenance

Local filepctb-punjab/class-10/pakistan-studies-10-en.pdf
Copy retrieved
SHA-256 of the analysed file55a07213572f28b26b2a9642f09fb8a2e0e96d73162a637f5b11d133aed56ab9
Sourcehttps://drive.google.com/uc?export=download&id=1yjFhk8BTHqZ0DCfxvfTZ-zPtVJi4hjkQ

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Identifiers and permanent link

Record IDpctb-pakistan-studies-10-en
Permanent link/books/pctb-pakistan-studies-10-en/
This record as data/books/pctb-pakistan-studies-10-en.json · whole dataset

The record ID is an accession number that happens to be readable. It never changes, even if the metadata encoded in it turns out to be wrong — if this book's board, class, subject or medium is corrected, the correction appears in the fields above and the ID stays as it is. That is the only way a link made today still resolves in ten years. The full rule is in the standards.

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Punjab Curriculum and Textbook Board, Lahore, Pakistan Studies EM 2023-24 Class 10, 2022-23. Catalogued by the Textbook Evidence Project as pctb-pakistan-studies-10-en, corpus version 210 records. Retrieved from /books/pctb-pakistan-studies-10-en/

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