Islamiyat, class 8

Class 8 is where the shared Sindh–KP syllabus finally breaks, and the break is generational. Sindh stays on the 2006-derived five-chapter design but rebuilds the seerah thematically as seven character-trait lessons — great moral character, patience, sincerity, justice and benevolence, social life, style of speech, domestic life — completes paras 21–30, and profiles Fatima Al-Zahra, Muhammad bin Qasim, Ibn Sina and Shah Waliullah. KP's is a genuine 2022 rebuild, approved under an SNC-2022 NOC dated 12-05-2022 and sourced from Afaq Publishers, Lahore, with a core of ritual and belief plus musawat, huqooq al-ibad, a moderation block and a named social-media lesson — the only place in the corpus where WhatsApp, Twitter and Instagram appear. Punjab keeps its seven-bab frame, its seventh unit pairing amr bil-ma'ruf as da'wat and tabligh with the accountability of the media. Punjab and KP are therefore vintage-matched here, both on the 2022 curriculum, and the board gap vanishes: both score A1b 3, A5 2, A6 2 and A7 4, identical across the board — a useful control against reading Punjab–KP differences elsewhere as editorial. Sindh is the only quotable file, and it reads at the ethical rather than doctrinal pole, which is why its A1b is 1 where the other two are 3: "Mercy and compassion for non-Muslims" (p.7), non-Muslim businessmen used as a positive comparator on honesty (p.48), and Muhammad bin Qasim, who "gave religious freedom to the Hindus and gave them lands to build temples there" (p.75). Its A6 stays at 2 rather than lower because the same lesson frees prisoners "from oppressive Hindus" (p.74). For Punjab and KP no minority or non-Muslim lesson is identifiable, but on Nastaliq OCR that is not established either way. Punjab and KP's 2022 Islamiyat books score identically on every axis, which is the strongest evidence in this study that what separates the boards is the year, not the province.