Overview / Findings / Assessment
"Aspiration for Jehad" was once a stated curriculum objective
The curriculum documents behind the 1980s and 1990s textbooks stated the aim explicitly. A 1995 primary curriculum went further and forbade the Ideology of Pakistan from being debated at all — the purest possible statement of assessment as compulsion.
It was not an inference then either — the curriculum documents said so. The 1984 Social Studies curriculum for classes VI–VIII listed “Concept: Jehad” with the affective objective “Aspiration for Jehad”, and the 1986 Urdu curriculum required that a pupil “must create yearning for Jehad”. A 1995 primary curriculum went further and forbade the Ideology of Pakistan from being debated at all. That is the purest statement of assessment as compulsion available anywhere in this material, and it is written in the state's own planning documents rather than inferred from a textbook.
“The Ideology of Pakistan be presented as an accepted reality, and be never subjected to discussion or dispute.”Primary Curriculum, 1995, p. 41, as quoted in A.H. Nayyar & Ahmed Salim (eds), The Subtle Subversion (SDPI, 2003)
What this rests on
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Limits
The 1984 Social Studies curriculum for classes VI–VIII listed "Concept: Jehad; Affective objective: Aspiration for Jehad"; the 1986 Urdu curriculum required that a pupil "must create yearning for Jehad in his heart".
Boards and confidence
Punjab high confidence
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Source
Primary Curriculum, 1995, p. 41, as quoted in A.H. Nayyar & Ahmed Salim (eds), The Subtle Subversion (SDPI, 2003)
Also cited
Primary Curriculum, 1995, p. 41; Social Studies curriculum for classes VI–VIII, 1984; Urdu curriculum, 1986 — all as quoted in A.H. Nayyar & Ahmed Salim (eds), <em>The Subtle Subversion</em> (Islamabad: SDPI, 2003).
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