Urdu, class 9

Punjab and KP publish what is effectively the same anthology, and this is the strongest same-book finding in the Urdu track. All eleven of KP's prose lessons match Punjab's — Shibli Nomani, Hali, Sir Syed, Muhammad Hussain Azad, Deputy Nazir Ahmad's Taubat-un-Nasuh, Premchand, Mirza Adeeb, Farhatullah Beg, Imtiaz Ali Taj, Shafiq-ur-Rahman, Colonel Muhammad Khan — and the poetry sections run in identical order: Hali's hamd (both opening "آفاق میں"), Amir Minai's naat, Nazir Akbarabadi's Barsaat ki Bahar, Iqbal, Mir, Aatish, Ghalib, Bahadur Shah Zafar. Both work from the 2006 National Curriculum for Urdu Lazmi IX, and the convergence is an artefact of vintage rather than province: Punjab's own class 6, 7 and 8 readers are SNC-2022 books and diverge sharply from KP's. No board difference should be manufactured here. Both are also the best-reconstructed Urdu files in the study, because every lesson is preceded by a clean author-biography page carrying name and dates that OCR'd legibly — which is why the inventory is known rather than guessed, and why the corpus-wide finding that no woman is credited as author of any selection is secure here: all of Punjab's twenty and all of KP's nineteen selections are male-authored, hence A7 5 for both. Both score A1 4, on an opening seerah prose lesson and a hamd-then-naat poetry opening. The only real difference is one lesson: Punjab appends an unattributed patriotic prose piece on the APS Peshawar attack (pp.100–106), civilian rather than military martyrdom, which lifts its A5 to 3 against KP's 2 — notably lower than KP's own class 6, 7 and 8 readers. One record-keeping caution: the corpus metadata files Punjab's copy as SNC 2022, while the book's own front matter cites the 2006 curriculum, a federal approval dated 21-10-2009 and a 2016 printing. Punjab and KP hand their ninth-graders the same Urdu anthology, and between them the two books credit not one woman as an author.