Overview / Findings / Militarism
KP's entire martial load sits in its Urdu reader and stops after class 8. Its English-medium pupils never meet it. Sindh has no military martyr anywhere in its corpus; its only shaheed is a civilian doctor.
KP does teach martyrdom, but only in one medium and only for a while. Its Urdu 7 runs two consecutive martyrdom lessons at units 3–4, and Urdu 8 carries a Kargil narrative — the body recovered from Indian forces, the rifle still in his grip, the Nishan-e-Haider awarded. Then it stops. The English shelf never carries any of it: KP's English 9 offers The Fantastic Shoemaker, a Peshawar artisan, as its role model, and no Nishan-e-Haider occurs in any KP English book across four years. Sindh goes further still — its only shaheed anywhere is Hakim Muhammad Said, a civilian doctor assassinated in 1998. Which language a child is taught in decides whether they meet this material at all.
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Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Urdu 8 (Urdu)
Theme-grade, worst-OCR file in the corpus. A Kargil martyrdom narrative — the martyr's body taken by Indian forces, his rifle still in his grip; "the Government of Pakistan awarded him the honour of Nishan-e-Haider" (urdu-8-ur · pp.33–34; substance recoverable, wording not). Also the army-valour piece citing Indian press praise ([track urdu](/studies/track-urdu/) §2.11)
Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Urdu 7 (Urdu)
Theme-grade but the proper nouns are legible: غازی علم الدین شہید (urdu-7-ur · pp.14–18) and کرنل شیر خان of Kargil, Nishan-e-Haider, Swabi (· line 524, lesson pp.19–24). Two consecutive martyrdom lessons at units 3–4
Theme-grade, but decisive: the only shaheed figure in Sindh's Urdu reader is Hakim Muhammad Said Shaheed, the civilian physician-philanthropist assassinated in 1998, with his Sitara-e-Imtiaz named (urdu-8-ur · PAGE 28). The other martyrdom references are Karbala (Hazrat Zainab lesson, · pp.12–15). No soldier appears
Unit 4 The Great Visionaries (Quaid + Iqbal). The single "Nishan-e-Haider" occurrence in the whole Sindh corpus is a wrong-answer distractor in an MCQ about which award Bilquis Edhi received (english-9-en · PAGE 145). It is not martial content and should not be counted as one
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Zero. Role model is The Fantastic Shoemaker, a Peshawar artisan. No Nishan-e-Haider in any KP English book, classes 6–9
Khyber PakhtunkhwaSindh medium 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.
Khyber Pakhtunkhwa English 9, 2006-curriculum reprint edition; Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Urdu 8 (Urdu medium), 2022-23 edition — PDF p. 33; Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Urdu 7 (Urdu medium), 2006-curriculum reprint edition — PDF p. 14; Sindh Urdu 8 (Urdu medium), portal-listed edition — PDF p. 28; Sindh English 9, portal-listed edition — PDF p. 145
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