Urdu, class 7

Urdu-medium throughout, so only structure and topics can be compared and no wording from any of the three is quotable. The shared template holds — hamd and naat opening, a first-aid or health essay, sport, a patriotic nazm, and a lesson on women in the Pakistan Movement in every board — but the martial content separates them sharply and, unusually, Punjab is not the extreme. KP scores A5 4 and is the most martial book at this grade: two consecutive martyrdom lessons sit at units three and four, on Ghazi Ilm-ud-Din and on Colonel Sher Khan of Kargil, a Nishan-e-Haider recipient from Swabi. Those proper nouns are legible even where the surrounding prose is not. Punjab drops to 3 from its class-6 volume's 5: the Nishan-e-Haider appears once, named as the highest honour (PAGE 90), with no recoverable martyr biography — a real fall between consecutive grades, though on Urdu OCR read it as plus or minus one. Sindh scores 2, its national content being a watan ke pasban nazm, Youm-e-Istiqlal and national-flag etiquette. KP is also highest on religion at A1 4 against 3 for the other two. Sindh is the most regionally distinctive Urdu volume in the corpus, carrying the Sindhi folk romance Noori Jam Tamachi and a biography of Haji Sir Abdullah Haroon, founder of the newspaper Al-Wahid in 1920; KP localises geographically instead, with a provincial survey lesson on Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, and no Pashto poet — no Khushal Khan Khattak, no Rahman Baba — appears anywhere in KP's Urdu readers. Sindh posts the strongest gender score of any Urdu reader in the corpus at A7 3, earned by a lesson naming five individual women politicians including Fatima Jinnah and Shaista Ikramullah. Vintage is confounded: Punjab is SNC-2022, Sindh and KP are 2006-curriculum. The KP board teaches a Kargil martyr from Swabi and does not teach a single Pashto poet.