English, class 9

All three are class-9 readers and all three place Wordsworth's Daffodils here, the only poem common to every board — but the books are otherwise unrelated, Punjab's aligned to "Revised/Updated NCP-2023", Sindh's a 2026 edition, KP's a 2006-curriculum volume still stamped "Test Edition". Punjab's eleven units are the most internally contradictory book in its sequence. A5 4 comes from Unit 2, Patriotism, which opens civically and then delivers the entire Nishan-e-Haider roll of honour by name, eleven officers who "all embraced martyrdom while fighting bravely for their motherland", with the comprehension, cause-and-effect and fact-versus-opinion exercises all built on the martyrs — yet A7 falls to 2, the most balanced volume in the corpus at a 0.79 pronoun ratio, because Hazrat Asma and Women Empowerment through Stories of Entrepreneurship sit adjacent at units 4 and 5. Sindh's eight units are where its secular sequence breaks: The Last Sermon of the Holy Prophet opens the book at PAGE 8–15 (A1 3, up from 2 at classes 6–8), the role model is Shah Abdul Latif treated as regional heritage, and Unit 6 is GENDER EQUITY (A7 2). KP is the most religiously saturated English reader measured, at 6.22 religious terms per thousand (A1 4), and simultaneously does the most interesting comparative work with that material: its fifth unit sets the Madina Charter directly beside the 1948 Universal Declaration of Human Rights and renders several UDHR articles — the only teaching of a named international rights instrument anywhere in KP, absent from both its Pakistan Studies books. It is also the least gender-balanced volume in the corpus at 0.31, with no gender unit at all. The only board that teaches its ninth-graders the Universal Declaration of Human Rights does it in the English lesson, and it is the same book with the fewest women in it.