Geography, class 8

This is one of the few cells that can be vintage-matched, and it is the more interesting for it: KP's class-8 Geography is one of the four books it genuinely rebuilt on the 2022 curriculum, approved by DCTE KP on 16-07-2022, so Punjab SNC-2022 stands against a KP book of the same generation. The match kills the easy explanation. Punjab's six chapters — Oceans and Seas, Living with Climate, Environmental Pollution, Industrialization and Trade, Transport, Social and Economic Development — make it the most climate-forward book in the corpus, with 47 mentions of climate change and 38 of global warming, the 2015 Karachi heatwave, the Thar drought, the 2022 floods and Paris 2015 named at p.41, though one discordant "Diverging Views of Global Warming" passage (p.24) tells pupils warming is not a major issue to most people. KP's is climate-forward too despite being far shorter, with two of its six chapters on climate and environment, a pollution block covering land, air, noise and light pollution, and a list of the territories worst affected by extreme weather referencing 2022, followed by an exercise asking pupils to relate climate effects to their own cities. Both are technocratic and secular: A1 1 for each, Punjab opening on "Water covers 71% of the Earth surface" and KP teaching development through indicators, HDI credited to Mahbub ul Haq beside a Norway-versus-Pakistan table. Two things separate them. Punjab again has no population chapter. And KP's book is copyrighted to the National Book Foundation in Islamabad rather than authored provincially, which shows: it has no KP-specific section anywhere, the province appearing only as points on national lists. Punjab's A6 3 rests almost entirely on the stamped map label "INDIAN ILLEGALLY OCCUPIED JAMMU & KASHMIR" (pp.49, 67, 70), the volume's one overtly ideological feature. Matched at the same curriculum year, Punjab and KP teach almost the same geography — and KP's provincial board bought its copy from Islamabad.