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One board requires a second compulsory religious subject
Khyber Pakhtunkhwa requires both Islamiyat and a separate 245-page Quranic-studies volume at class 9 — 371 pages of compulsory religious instruction against Punjab's 170 and Sindh's 176, roughly twice either board.
At class 9 a KP pupil carries two compulsory religious volumes, not one: Islamiyat, plus a separate 245-page Quranic-studies book. That is 371 pages of required religious instruction against Punjab's 170 and Sindh's 176 — roughly double either board, before a single lesson is taught. The load is structural rather than tonal: it is a decision about how many pages the subject gets, made at the level of the scheme of studies.
What this rests on
This finding is not a reading of one passage. It is a property of the corpus as a whole, computed from the page counts of the compulsory religious volumes at class 9. There is no single page to quote, which is why none is quoted here.
Boards and confidence
Khyber Pakhtunkhwa 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
The compulsory class-9 religious volumes: KP 371 pp. across two books, Punjab 170 pp., Sindh 176 pp.
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