Overview / Studies
The studies
20 reports behind the findings. The lenses cut across subjects; the tracks cut across boards. Every claim in them carries a book, an edition and a page.
Core documents
Synthesis — scored social-angle comparison of five Pakistani curricula
The headline comparison: how the five boards score across seven axes, and why two defensible composite indices rank them differently.
Scoring rubric — social-angle analysis of the PK textbook corpus
The seven-axis instrument, fixed before any book was read, with the scoring rules and the evidence standards every claim on this site must meet.
Edition audit — is the corpus holding each board's *latest* books?
Proof that the books analysed here are the current ones — and the finding that curriculum vintage, not province, is the sharper divide.
What the Pupil Must Write
A journal-length article arguing that what pupils are required to write in examinations is a stronger instrument for reading a curriculum than what its textbooks say.
What the Treatment Predicts
Twenty-six falsifiable predictions about what these four curricula should produce in the pupils formed by them — attitudes, and then personality structure — each with the test that would refute it.
Thread: Iconoclasm — is there an equivalence chain from Makkan idols to Hindu India?
Does any board link the smashing of idols at Makkah to Muslim conquest in India? A four-tier evidence test, and what each province actually does.
Thread: Moral rescue — is pre-Islamic Arabia set against Hindu/pre-Islamic India as a shared state of barbarism?
Testing whether pre-Islamic Arabia and pre-Islamic India are constructed as a shared barbarism from which Muslim rule delivered rescue.
Thread: The mother tongue — is a province's own language taught as literature, or named as heritage?
Every board names its regional poets. Only Sindh teaches one as a set text — and no Punjabi poet appears in any of Punjab's five Urdu literary readers.
Social lenses
Lens L1 — Religion
How much religious content appears outside Islamiyat — in science, English, geography and history — and how far each board separates faith from subject matter.
Lens L2 — Civics, Democracy and Rights
What a pupil is taught about rights, democracy, law and the citizen's relationship to the state — and which province teaches them to judge rather than recall.
Lens L3 — History & National Narrative
Whose history is told, where each province starts the story, and what is left out of the account of Partition, 1971 and military rule.
Lens L4 — Patriotism & Militarism
Patriotism is taught everywhere in roughly equal volume.
Lens L5 — Othering & Hostility (axis A6)
How Hindus, India, the West and religious minorities are portrayed, with the quoted passages and the counter-examples each board also prints.
Lens L6 — Gender · Axis A7 (gender conservatism)
Women as agents, as subjects, or as absent — counted across the corpus, with the distinction between what is taught and who is depicted.
Subject tracks
Pakistan Studies (Classes 9–10): Comparative Analysis of Punjab (PCTB), Sindh (STBB), and KP (KPTBB) Textbooks
The subject that carries the national narrative, compared board by board across classes 9 and 10.
Social Studies / History / Geography (Classes 6–8): Comparative Analysis of Punjab (PCTB), Sindh (STBB), and KP (KPTBB) Textbooks
The boards do not even agree what this subject is: one integrated volume in some provinces, split History and Geography in others.
Track: Islamiyat (Islamic Studies) — PCTB Punjab vs STBB Sindh vs KPTBB KP
Compulsory religious instruction compared across the boards that publish it, classes 6 to 10.
Track: Urdu — Comparative Structural Analysis
What the national-language reader teaches beyond language: the selection of authors, themes and moral lessons in each province.
English (Classes 6–9): Comparative Analysis of Punjab (PCTB), Sindh (STBB), and KP (KPTBB) Readers
The English reader as a vehicle for values — what its comprehension passages are about, and how that differs by province.
Sciences (General Science 6–8; Biology / Chemistry / Physics 9): Comparative Analysis of Punjab (PCTB), Sindh (STBB), and KP (KPTBB) Textbooks
Biology, chemistry, physics and general science: how much religious framing enters, and how differently the provinces handle evolution and inquiry.