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9th Class Pakistan Studies (UM) PDF Textbook by Punjab Board

Punjab Curriculum and Textbook Board, Lahore

Bibliographic record

BoardPunjab Curriculum and Textbook Board, Lahore
Class9
SubjectPakistan Studies
MediumEnglish
CurriculumSNC 2022
Edition2022-23
ApprovalSingle National Curriculum 2022, Experimental Edition
Pages112
File size32.1 MB
PDF producerCorel PDF Engine Version 24.3.1.576

Analysis

Four chapters (Ideological Basis, a mega-chapter running 1857 to 1971 in one sweep, Land and Environment, Women's Empowerment), translated from an Urdu original, with the Nazaria-i-Pakistan Trust on the review panel (p.2). It scores at the extreme on three axes. A3 5 and A4 5: zero source-criticism vocabulary, the Two-Nation Theory eternalised to "the arrival of Muslims in the subcontinent" (PAGE 7), the army exculpated as having "to intervene to crush the revolt" (PAGE 55), the surrender never named. A6 5 is the corpus maximum, taught as examinable content: the keyed MCQ option is "Hindus are not our friends" (p.18), and among the 1971 causes is "Role of Hindu Teachers - ... They poisoned the Bengalis against Pakistan" (p.56). Yet the same book scores A7 2, the only volume at pronoun parity, on a Women's Empowerment chapter (pp.97-108) naming Benazir Bhutto, Fahmida Mirza and Nafis Sadiq, citing CEDAW and the Punjab Protection of Women Against Violence Act 2016, with a Myth/Fact box refusing to blame victims. Nine pages earlier the same chapter says Islam protects women "in the form of veil and four walls" (PAGE 99). Quote both or neither.

Evidence tier

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

Measured scores

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

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 9

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. 9 English OCR #e01

Ch.1 Ideological Basis of Pakistan opens the book; Tauheed, prayer, hajj and "Almighty Allah is the source of law" expounded · PAGE 9–10; the Farewell Sermon quoted in Arabic with translation, then Surah Al-Hujurat, as the proof-text for equality · PAGE 12; women's rights derived from Quran and Hadith · PAGE 97–98; "Pakistan is a fortunate country, in the sense, that Almighty Allah has blessed it" · PAGE 61.

quotation civics lens A2 = 3 PDF p. 10 English OCR #e02

Rule of law is theologised: "The rule of law is an important virtue of the Islamic system. It is based on the idea that Almighty Allah is the source of law." PAGE 10. Rights arrive via the Objectives Resolution only. Ch.4 Women's Empowerment supplies real rights content (violence typology, Punjab Protection of Women Against Violence Act 2016) and the corpus's only Punjab UDHR reference, a sidebar PAGE 107. "1973" occurs three times and is never described

absence history lens A3 = 5 PDF p. 7 English OCR #e03

Zero source-criticism vocabulary; 3 inquiry-verb hits in 35k words, none pedagogical. Two-Nation Theory dated to conquest: "The concept of two-nation theory had begun with the arrival of Muslims in the subcontinent" (pakistan-studies-9-en · PAGE 7). 1971: army exculpated — "Pakistan's Armed Forces had to intervene to crush the revolt" (PAGE 55); defeat externalised — "When they ran out of supplies and no more aid could reach from West Pakistan, India succeeded in its nefarious designs" (PAGE 56); the surrender is never named (0 hits in a 1971 context). Conspiratorial causes: "In East Pakistan trade and government jobs were dominated by Hindus in large number and they were stirring up separation sentiments under hidden motives" (PAGE 56); "Education sector in East Pakistan was totally under the control of the Hindus. They poisoned the Bengalis against Pakistan" (PAGE 56). Internal faults appear only in the passive and unattributed ("the transfer of powers to the new government was delayed", PAGE 55; "no government took adequate measures to remove economic disparities", PAGE 56).

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 = 5 PDF p. 18 English OCR #e04

Trans-historical enmity, taught as examinable content. "In 1867, while exposing the enmity of Hindus against Muslims, Sir Syed Ahmad Khan had clearly declared:" — with the keyed option "(c) Hindus are not our friends." (p.18). "Quaid-e-Azam with his towering personality, overcame many problems created after independence. The Hindus tried to create all kinds of difficulties for Pakistan… and the ill-treatment of the Muslims by the Hindus" (p.37). "After the establishment of Pakistan, Hindu-Muslim riots had become common due to the hatred of Hindus towards the Muslims in India." (p.39). 1971 causes: "(ii) Impact of Hindus on Trade and Services… they were stirring up separation sentiments under hidden motives"; "(iv) Role of Hindu Teachers — Education sector in East Pakistan was totally under the control of the Hindus. They poisoned the Bengalis against Pakistan" (p.56). Arya Samaj "aimed at forcibly converting non-Hindus into Hindus" (p.4).

quotation othering lens A6 = 4 PDF p. 56 English OCR #e05

"India succeeded in its nefarious designs" (p.56); "defense against India's conspiracies" and "the Indian leadership was constantly plotting against Pakistan" (p.39); "In this way, India continued working against Pakistan's stability." (p.37). "enemy/enemies" ×13, all directed at India (pp.49–51).

quotation othering lens A6 = 3 PDF p. 51 English OCR #e06

Agency externalised rather than the group disparaged: "Bengalis chanted slogan of independent state with the help of pro-Indian [elements]" (p.51); "They poisoned the Bengalis" (p.56). Dupes, not villains.

quotation othering lens A6 = 2 PDF p. 8 English OCR #e07

Guarantees stated but no section: "Here non-Muslims will get equal status with Muslims" (p.8); "All the minorities living in Pakistan shall be fully free to lead their lives according [to their religion]" (p.40); Jogendra Nath Mandal named once (p.30).

quotation othering lens A6 = 2 PDF p. 8 English OCR #e08

Neutral-to-positive; one boundary line, "Judge not your nation on the criteria of western nations." (p.8)

quotation gender lens A7 = 2 PDF p. 97 English OCR #e09

Chapter 4 Women's Empowerment, pp.97–108 — the corpus's only book at parity. See §5.2

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

1971 is narrated three different ways, and only one board names the surrender

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

One explanation for 1971 survives in every board across twenty years of editions

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.

Otheringhigh confidence

Pakistani religious minorities are the one out-group every board treats in the pluralist half

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.

Otheringhigh confidence

One board is simultaneously the most hostile and among the most inclusive

Punjab scores highest on hostility toward Hindus and India, and among the lowest on hostility toward Pakistani religious minorities. Its Pakistan Studies 9 and 10 are consecutive volumes of a single course scoring at opposite ends of the scale. The pluralism is real but compartmentalised into the citizenship slot; it never reaches the historical narrative.

Otheringhigh confidence

The man who campaigned against sati appears only as an enemy of Muslims

Raja Ram Mohan Roy — the reformer most associated with the abolition of sati — appears in Punjab's Pakistan Studies 9 solely as someone who "used to speak against Muslims out of Muslim hostility". The reform programme is not refuted; it is deleted.

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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