Zero religious tokens across 39,309 words. No bismillah framing, no providential causation, no scriptural epigraph.
Overview / Findings / Religion
Balochistan's science shelf contains no religious content at all
Balochistan's General Science 6, General Science 7, Chemistry 9 and Chemistry 10 return zero religious tokens across a combined 188,923 words. The board is the most secular in the corpus on A1 (1.94), and the result is driven almost entirely by its sciences: eleven of its sixteen scored English-medium books score 1 or 2.
Four Balochistan science books return zero religious tokens between them: General Science 6 across 39,309 words, General Science 7 across 42,589, Chemistry 9 across 64,995 and Chemistry 10 across 42,030 — 188,923 words with no bismillah framing, no providential causation, no scriptural epigraph. That shelf is what drives the board's position as the most secular in the corpus on religious saturation, at 1.94, with eleven of its sixteen scored English-medium books at 1 or 2. Any claim that Balochistan's curriculum is uniformly religiously saturated is refuted by its own science shelf.
What was checked and not found
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Zero religious tokens across 42,589 words.
Zero religious tokens across 64,995 words.
Zero religious tokens across 42,030 words.
Against this
The same board concentrates religion sharply elsewhere: its English 10 devotes a full unit of a language reader to the Prophet's life, with the pre-Islamic Arabia framing “Women were treated like animals. Ignorance ruled everywhere” (English 10, p. 9). Balochistan does not spread religion thinly; it concentrates it.
Limits
Any claim that Balochistan's curriculum is uniformly religiously saturated is refuted by its own science shelf.
Boards and confidence
Balochistan high confidence
Confidence reflects the evidence tier this rests on. High means native or English-medium text verified by exact string match; medium means it depends partly on Urdu-medium material read at theme grade, or on an absence. See the method.
Source
Balochistan General Science 6, NC 2022-23 pilot edition; Balochistan General Science 7, NC 2022-23 pilot edition; Balochistan Chemistry 9, NC 2022-23 pilot edition; Balochistan Chemistry 10, NC 2006 edition
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Textbook Evidence Project, “Balochistan's science shelf contains no religious content at all”. Evidence from 4 textbooks (Balochistan). Corpus version 210 records. Retrieved from https://textbookevidence.com/findings/btbb-sciences-zero-religious-tokens/
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