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Urdu, class 6
4 boards, 4 books. These books are not of the same curriculum generation — see the vintage note below.
Vintage warning. This cell compares National Curriculum 2022-23 against National Curriculum 2006 against SNC 2022. A difference here may reflect the decade the book was written in rather than provincial policy. The defensible reading is "what each board is currently printing", not "what each province believes".
Side by side
| Board | Subject | Medium | Edition | Curriculum | Pages | Text | A1 | A5 | A7 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| BTBB | Urdu | Urdu | NC 2022-23 pilot | National Curriculum 2022-23 | 156 | scanned | 3 | · | · |
| KPTBB | Urdu | Urdu | 2006-curriculum reprint | National Curriculum 2006 | 143 | scanned | 4 | 4 | 4 |
| PCTB | Urdu | Urdu | 2022-23 | SNC 2022 | 141 | scanned | 3 | 5 | 4 |
| STBB | Urdu | Urdu | portal-listed | National Curriculum 2006 | 113 | scanned | 3 | 2 | 4 |
All axes run 1–5, where 1 is the secular/pluralist/open pole. A dot means that lens did not score that book. See the method.
What the difference amounts to
All three books are Urdu-medium, so nothing here is quotable and this is a comparison of structure, topics and recoverable proper nouns only. All three run the same template — an opening hamd and naat, a moral or seerah lesson, environment and pollution, agriculture, sport, a patriotic nazm — and all three carry a women-focused lesson while crediting no woman as author of any selection, a pattern that holds across all twelve Urdu readers in the corpus. The divergence is martial and it is large. Punjab scores A5 5, and the score rests on proper nouns and numerals, which do survive degraded Nastaliq: a lesson at pp.55–59 naming eleven Nishan-e-Haider recipients (PAGE 58), an exercise directing pupils to research a Pakistan Army martyr and write him up in their own words (PAGE 64), the award defined again at PAGE 77 and a martyrdom narrative at PAGE 79. Punjab is redundant across media here — the same Nishan-e-Haider roll appears in both its English and its Urdu class-6 readers. KP scores 4, on a Defence Day lesson covering the 1965 air war and the corpus's only ummah-politics lesson, pairing the 1969 Al-Aqsa arson with the February 1974 Lahore Islamic Summit. Sindh scores 2: patriotic nazms, Youm-e-Azadi and the Quaid's Ziarat residency, with no martyr biography and no war lesson recovered — not established rather than absent. On religion KP is highest at A1 4 (a Hazrat Khadijah lesson early, a hadith-cited dignity-of-labour piece, a Hazrat Umar justice narrative) against 3 for the other two. Sindh's is the most secular-modern slate, running Edison and the phonograph beside essays on health, mathematics and sport. Vintage is split, Punjab SNC-2022 against 2006-curriculum reprints in Sindh and KP, so this is Punjab's current reader against what the others are printing. Punjab's eleven-year-olds meet the same eleven Nishan-e-Haider recipients twice in one year, once in English and once in Urdu.
The books in this comparison
Urdu - Grade 6 — Balochistan
Urdu 6 KPK — Khyber Pakhtunkhwa
A 2006-curriculum Urdu reader of roughly twenty-two lessons whose contents page survives only in fragments, so the lesson titles in the source analysis are descriptions of content rather than printed headings. Two things make it distinctive. First, it carries the corpus's only ummah-politics lesson, pairing the 1969 Al… full analysis →
Urdu SNC 2023-24 Class 6 — Punjab
Urdu medium and the lesson inventory is only low-to-medium confidence: the fehrist at PAGE 4 survives in fragments and several lesson titles are unreadable, so no count of lessons should be inferred. What is recoverable is an essay-and-poem book - the genre markers are dominated by mazmoon and nazm with almost no prose… full analysis →
Urdu Reader VI (2020-21) — Sindh
An Urdu-medium reader of roughly 26 lessons, reconstructed at medium-to-high confidence from a surviving contents page. The sequence opens with a hamd and a naat, then runs Saadi hikayat, a lesson on women's role in the Pakistan Movement, Youm-e-Azadi, the Quaid's Ziarat residency, Edison and the phonograph, essays on … full analysis →