Urdu, class 8

Class 8 is the one Urdu cell where Punjab and KP are vintage-matched, both on the 2022 curriculum — KP's approved under a DCTE letter of 12-05-2022 — against Sindh's 2006-base reader. It is also the cell where the evidence is weakest: KP's class-8 Urdu is the most degraded file in the corpus, more than half its pages producing unusable text and its contents page surviving only as a learning-outcomes column, so its inventory is incomplete and its A7 of 5 is explicitly not established. What did survive matters. Both Punjab and KP score A5 4, and both on martyrdom: Punjab brings Major Shabbir Sharif back with both the Sitara-e-Jurat and the Nishan-e-Haider named (PAGE 55–56), the third Punjab Urdu reader in a row to carry martyrdom material; KP's 2022 rebuild still runs a Kargil narrative in which the martyr's body is taken by Indian forces with his rifle still in his grip, plus an army-valour piece citing Indian press praise for Pakistani soldiers. The rebuild did not remove the martial spine. Sindh scores 2, and the reason is recoverable at theme grade: the only shaheed figure is Hakim Muhammad Said, a civilian physician assassinated in 1998, the other martyrdom references being Karbala. No soldier appears. Sindh is highest on religion at A1 4, the densest Urdu reader in the corpus on religious markers, with a hamd, an akhlaq-e-nabawi lesson on Taif, a Hazrat Zainab lesson, a naat and an ummah-unity lesson all inside the first quarter. It is also the only board reaching past 1947 for its exemplars — Edhi, Hakim Said, a Girl Guides lesson — and carries the corpus's only literary-theory lesson. Punjab's legible women's lesson is khawateen ka ehtiram aur maqam (PAGE 95), an honorific rather than an agency frame. KP rewrote its class-8 Urdu reader in 2022 and kept the Kargil martyr; Sindh, on a fifteen-year-old syllabus, gives the slot to a doctor.