Islamiyat

Twelve scored volumes, four per board, and the boards do not structure the subject the same way. Punjab runs a seven-bab architecture stable across classes 6 to 9, with two units that have no counterpart elsewhere: one on dealings and social conduct, and one on Islamic teachings and the demands of the present age, present in every single grade. Sindh runs five chapters at classes 6 to 8 and four in a combined IX-X volume. KP mirrors Sindh exactly at classes 6 and 7, then rebuilds class 8 on the 2022 curriculum, and issues a combined 9 plus 10 Islamiat Lazmi. Crucially, KP's and Sindh's classes 6 and 7 are established as the same 2006-curriculum syllabus in two languages — same hifz surah trios, same seerah episode sequence, same four personality profiles in the same order — so those scores are reported once and no board difference should be claimed.

Sindh is the only board that publishes Islamiyat in English, and it is therefore the only board whose religious register can be quoted. That produces a visibility bias worth stating: Sindh looks doctrinally sharpest partly because Sindh is the only board this method can see. Its IX-X volume contains the corpus's most elaborated restraint doctrine on jihad — self-struggle ranked first as Jihad-e-Akbar, "The best Jihad is to speak a word of justice in front of the tyrant ruler", a state monopoly on declaring war with individual and group fatwas declared void, civilian immunity, and the closing decoupling "Word Jihad is not a synonym of war" — and, in the same volume, the corpus's clearest supremacist passage, in the tafsir of Al-Tawbah 33, alongside a named protected-minority guarantee at page 25. Both halves belong to one book. Its class-6 volume also carries the corpus's most overlooked adversarial text, aimed at ten-year-olds: under a heading on the hostility of the Jews of Khyber, "They were always busy in anti-Islamic activities and conspiracies", set as an examinable true/false item four pages later. KP teaches the same lesson in Urdu.

Punjab's class-9 volume is the most technical in the corpus, opening not with recitation but with the compilation and preservation of the Quran and the codification of hadith. Its jihad lesson requires pupils to distinguish jihad fi sabilillah from fasad fil-ard, glossed as terrorism, in the light of Paigham-e-Pakistan — and the same printed page's activity block directs them to write the names and deeds of the Nishan-e-Haider martyrs into their diaries.

Progression: religious instruction does not radicalise with age so much as change register. Gender decays — Sindh runs exactly one woman per volume, always in first position (Khadijah, Ayesha, Fatima al-Zahra), then zero at IX-X; Punjab is the only board whose Islamiyat does not drop women at class 9, with a Sahabiyat section and a lesson on the Prophet's treatment of women. Absent from every volume in every board: any woman profiled as a scholar. Also absent: any dedicated Ibrahim-as-iconoclast lesson, and any Conquest-of-Makkah chapter in the eight Urdu volumes. Muslim science is a Sindh-only motif here; Punjab and KP fill the slot with hadith and fiqh imams and Sufi revivalists.

Class-10 Islamiyat volumes from Punjab and KP have since been added and are unscored; note that both Sindh and KP already deliver classes 9 and 10 as a single combined book, so only Punjab's is a genuinely new grade-level text. Confidence: high for Sindh's four English books, theme-grade for the eight Urdu ones — presence of a lesson is established, framing is not, and the absence of a minorities lesson in Punjab and KP is recorded as not established rather than absent.