Social Studies (split comparison), class 8

At class 8 the comparison inverts, and it inverts because of an edition rather than a policy. Sindh's class-8 volume is not a Sindh Curriculum book at all: it is a legacy federal Middle School Project text translated from Urdu, approved by a Curriculum Wing superseded in 2010 and reprinted around 2020-21, sixty-six pages carrying the universe, land and water, climatic regions, resources, population, communications, tourism, the Ideology of Pakistan, the UN and a health chapter. The board's whole history and ideology load for classes 6 to 8 sits in one eight-page chapter. Everything its own class-7 companion did well is gone: civics absent, climate change absent, A3 5 on two inquiry verbs in 39,000 words, A4 5 with no Pakistani actor ever at fault, and the corpus's most adversarial passages — "The Hindu racists were not only against Muslims but were against all other minorities and even Christians became victims of their atrocities" (p.52), "the Hindus had no clean heart for the Muslims" (p.54) — giving a Hindus reading of A6 5, the corpus maximum. Punjab and KP each devote a whole History volume to the colonial and Pakistan Movement narrative and pair it with a climate-forward Geography; both KP books here are 2022 rebuilds, so Punjab and KP are vintage-matched at this grade while Sindh is two decades behind. Punjab's History 8 is the only book in the corpus with a full World Wars chapter and scores A4 5; KP's carries its narrative to the 2022 no-confidence vote and scores 3. So a Punjabi and a KP eighth-grader each receive modern history and a current geography, while a Sindhi eighth-grader receives eight pages of ideology and a chapter on smoking. A Sindhi child spends class 7 learning the rule of law and class 8 learning that Hindus had no clean heart for the Muslims — and both books were printed by the same board in the same decade.