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KP to remove ‘objectionable’ material from textbooks
PESHAWAR: The Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf government in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa has decided in principle to remove ‘objectionable material’ from the textbooks of local primary schools to please the key partner of the ruling coalition, Jamaat-i-Islami.
A senior official of the education department told Dawn on Friday that JI leaders had voiced reservations about the printing of pictures of minor girls without dupatta, Christmas cake and a Cross emblem on an ambulance instead of Crescent, the mention of good morning instead of Assalamu Aliakum, and presence of some other ‘objectionable’ content in textbooks for primary schools.
“JI leaders have complained about minor things in textbooks, whose removal has been decided in principle,” the official said requesting anonymity as he is not authorised to speak to the media.
He said JI had demanded replacement of the expression ‘good morning’ with Assalamu Aliakum and the government was quick to accept it.
JI had objected to pictures of girls without dupatta, X-mas cake, Cross emblem, good morning expression
When contacted, JI provincial spokesman Israrullah said his party had serious reservations about certain contents of textbooks but ‘objectionable’ content had been removed after elementary and secondary education minister Atif Khan met party leaders on Wednesday.
“Officials of the department concerned and textbook board have formally agreed to remove objectionable contents from textbooks and will induct material to be proposed by Jamaat,” he said.
The meeting held in Peshawar on Wednesday was attended by education minister Atif Khan, additional secretary education Qaisar Alam, chairman of the textbook board Jamal Nasir and other senior officers.
Jamaat-i-Islami was represented by local government minister Inayatullah Khan, head of the JI education committee Mirajuddin and other members of the party.
“Jamaat is now satisfied with the government’s assurances and hopes minutes of the meeting with the minister will be implemented in letter and spirit,” Israrullah said, adding that the revised syllabus would conform to Islamic teachings and the ideology of Pakistan.
JI had recently protested the presence of objectionable material in textbooks and even threatened to quit the PTI-led government over it.
JI provincial chief Professor Mohammad Ibrahim had stated early this month that his party had not been taken into confidence before preparation of syllabus for primary schools.
He had complained that the provincial government has removed lessons on the life of Holy Prophet Mohammad (Peace Be upon Him), His wives and four caliphs of Muslims from textbooks and inducted contents about Ranjit Singh, Raja Dahir, and Khan Abdul Ghaffar Khan.
JI claimed that it had signed an agreement with its senior coalition partner in which it was decided that the controversial contents of textbooks by the previous government would be removed and that the new syllabus would be designed with the JI consultation.
Israrullah said the meeting of JI was held in Peshawar on Thursday night which discussed the recent agreement with the government regarding preparation of new syllabus for schools. Professor Ibrahim chaired the meeting.
The spokesman said the material related with teaching of Islam, Prophet Mohammad (PBUH) and important Muslim personalities, including Quaid-i-Azam Mohammad Ali Jinah, would again be included in textbooks.
He said the India-occupied Kashmir was not shown as part of Pakistan in the map printed in textbooks, while lessons about Quaid-i-Azam were also removed from textbooks designed for children.
He said induction of lesson about Khan Abdul Ghaffar was not a big issue.
The government official said the objection over Khan Abdul Ghaffar Khan was turned down and JI leaders were convinced that like Abdul Ghaffar Khan, every politician was controversial.
He said the map incorporated in the Survey of Pakistan had been reproduced in the textbooks.
Published in Dawn, September 27th, 2014
پشاور: کنٹینر کی سیل توڑنے پرجماعت اسلامی اورتحریک انصاف کے مقامی رہ نماؤں کے خلاف پشتخرہ پولیس اسٹیشن میں مقدمہ درج، پولیس
— Geo News Urdu (@geonews_urdu) December 2, 2013
پشاور: مقدمہ جماعت اسلامی کے سابق صوبائی وزیرکاشف اعظم اور تحریک انصاف کے کیمپ انچارج ملک رئیس کے خلاف درج کیا گیا
— Geo News Urdu (@geonews_urdu) December 2, 2013
پشاور: دھرنے کے دوران جماعت اسلامی اور تحریک انصاف کے کارکنوں نے افغانستان جانے والے کنٹینر کا سیل توڑ ڈالا تھا
— Geo News Urdu (@geonews_urdu) December 2, 2013
PTI tastes a rare spurt of anger amid cries of pain
PESHAWAR, Sept 22: The Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf and its allies tasted public anger for the first time when aggrieved families of those killed in the Sunday’s twin suicide attacks on All Saints Church in Peshawar city sparked anger over the government’s apathy.
“Shame, shame, we don’t want your posters and slogans. Come and help us,” the Lady Reading Hospital crowded with families of the killed and injured in the attacks resonated with protest chants as one PTI MPA turned up to give a statement on media present on the spot instead of consoling the families of the victims.
The yard outside the trauma centre resonated with cries of pain and anger as the aggrieved families did not let the MPA score points on media and speak. Mourners were chanting slogans against the provincial government and LRH management for not providing quick response to the traumatised wounded people.
“The government instead of giving severe punishment to the culprits has been releasing militants and criminals from prisons,” remarked Father John William, who stated that not a single murderer was brought to justice.
Umar Maseeh, another protester at LRH, accused PTI chairman Imran Khan of supporting the cause of militants. “Imran carried out his election campaign across the country, but he was never attacked, while we are unsafe even inside church, why?” he asked.
“It only shows Imran is a sympathiser of militants,” he alleged.
The bloody attack was a reality check for the coalition partners of PTI, including Qaumi Watan Party and Jamaat-i-Islami. The ministers and MPAs fearing backlash could not dare to visit the LRH for almost three hours after the incident to console the angry mourners and ensure timely treatment of the wounded. There were no arrangements at the official level to provide coffins. Thanks to Al Khidmat Foundation which arranged about 100 coffins for packing bodies.
Of total 59 cabinet members, advisors, special assistants and parliamentary secretaries, only senior minister Sikandar Khan Sherpao and PTI provincial information secretary Ishtiaq Urmar, who is also parliamentary secretary, reached the LRH, but the angry protesters did not let them speak. Agitated Christians forced Sikandar Sherpao and Mr Urmar to leave the hospital’s premises immediately.
The absence of Information Minister Shah Farman often seen in an offensive demeanour on the floor of the assembly and press briefings, was conspicuous.
Health Minister Shaukat Ali Yousafzai whose reckless statements frequently put the ruling coalition in hot waters was missing till the PTI chairman and chief minister turned up at the hospital where he just gave figures of the dead and injured in the attack.
Perhaps, it was the appearance of the former information minister Mian Iftikhar Hussain on media which might have spurred the PTI into action as Imran Khan came from Islamabad to the Peshawar hospital for damage control.
Imran, while talking to media, blamed his political rivals for inciting the aggrieved Christians against the provincial government. He condemned them for politicising the incident. However, he seemed willy-nilly in condemning the terrorists who had attacked the innocent worshippers at one of the oldest churches of the city.
“The previous government has left the mess for us and now people are being provoked against us,” he told media without mentioning the Awami National Party.
Interior Minister Chaudhry Nisar, on the directives of the President and prime minister, came too late (at around 8:00pm) with the message of the Punjab chief minister’s offer of medical help.
The agent of the federal government Engineer Shaukatullah, who did not come out from his palatial Governor’s House to console the religious minority brutally attacked by terrorists, was visible only when the interior minister was talking to media.
LAHORE: All opposition parties in
Punjab will joint fight against the ruling party Pakistan Muslim League
Nawaz in upcoming local bodies polls.
In a joint meeting, the leaders of
Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI), Pakistan Muslim League-Q, Pakistan
Peoples Party and Jamaat e Islami say that they would adopt a joint
strategy against PML-N.
After the meeting, PPP’s Manzor Watto,
JI’s Amir ul Azeem, PTI’s Ejaz Chaudhry and Khaursheed Kasuri made the
joint statement over the issue.
They say that they would not tolerate non-party based elections at local bodies level.
The leaders from all political parties
agreed to expand cooperation and seat adjustment during the upcoming
local government election across Punjab province.
Moreover, the coalition parties accepted to refer the court over the controversial decision taken by the provincial government.
http://www.thenewstribe.com/2013/09/03/pti-ppp-pml-q-ji-to-joint-fight-in-local-bodies-poll-against-pml-n/
Performance of KP govt unsatisfactory: JI chief
PESHAWAR: Jamaat-e-Islami (JI) chief Syed Munawwar Hassan, whose party is a major coalition partner in the provincial government, said on Tuesday that the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa government’s performance was unsatisfactory and his party had taken up the issue with the chief minister.
“We believe the provincial government has failed to show urgency in solving problems faced by people. We don’t see the progress that should have been made,” he told a press conference at Al-Markaz-e-Islami, where Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Senior Minister Sirajul Haq flanked him. “We have raised the issue of the coalition government’s (poor) performance with the chief minister. We are discussing it,” he added.
Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) Chairman Imran Khan was reported on Tuesday to have said he would dissolve the provincial assembly if his party was ‘pushed to the wall.’ The coalition has been under intense pressure to deliver, as people want them to show performance in the initial months of its rule in the province, as promised by Imran Khan. Chief Minister Pervez Khattak had set August 31 for showing ‘change’ to people in the province, but it remains unclear as to what he would do in the next four days that would bring about ‘change.’
However, Syed Munawwar Hassan did not like Imran Khan’s statement about dissolving the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Assembly and advised him to refrain from churning out statements as ‘it sometimes worsen matters instead of improving.’ “Imran Khan must realise now that he is in power and it would better for him not to issue so many statements,” he replied to a question with a smile on his face.
Other JI leaders including central Secretary General Liaqat Baloch, provincial chief Prof Muhammad Ibrahim, JI’s parliamentary leader in the National Assembly Sahibzada Tariqullah and others also attended the press conference.
The JI chief said the May 11 general elections were ‘engineered’ and hoped facts would soon unfold. He said that the political parties that had won majority were also complaining of rigging in the general elections. “This has happened for the first time in the electoral history of the country,” he said, underscoring the intensity of the rigging. He alleged that Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz was swerving from its manifesto by begging loan from the IMF and World Bank. “Now they have the begging bowl hanging from their neck,” he said, reminding Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif of his promise of breaking the begging bowl.
He said Nawaz Sharif had promised to solve the issue of loadshedding and price-hike in the first few months of his government, but now he was saying that these problems would end in five years. “People waited for five years for the solution of loadshedding and price-hike problems but now this government is asking them to wait for five more years,” he lamented.
About the issue of talks with militants, Syed Munawwar Hassan said the government should accept talks offer by Taliban as a first step towards starting negotiations with the militants. He said talks was the best way to solve problems but expressed concern the American government and ‘secular lobby’ in the country did not want peace talks with the Pakistani Taliban.
He hailed talks between President Hamid Karzai and Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif and said his party would welcome any step taken for peace between the two countries.
PESHAWAR: Jamaat-e-Islami (JI) chief Syed Munawwar Hassan, whose party is a major coalition partner in the provincial government, said on Tuesday that the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa government’s performance was unsatisfactory and his party had taken up the issue with the chief minister.
“We believe the provincial government has failed to show urgency in solving problems faced by people. We don’t see the progress that should have been made,” he told a press conference at Al-Markaz-e-Islami, where Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Senior Minister Sirajul Haq flanked him. “We have raised the issue of the coalition government’s (poor) performance with the chief minister. We are discussing it,” he added.
Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) Chairman Imran Khan was reported on Tuesday to have said he would dissolve the provincial assembly if his party was ‘pushed to the wall.’ The coalition has been under intense pressure to deliver, as people want them to show performance in the initial months of its rule in the province, as promised by Imran Khan. Chief Minister Pervez Khattak had set August 31 for showing ‘change’ to people in the province, but it remains unclear as to what he would do in the next four days that would bring about ‘change.’
However, Syed Munawwar Hassan did not like Imran Khan’s statement about dissolving the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Assembly and advised him to refrain from churning out statements as ‘it sometimes worsen matters instead of improving.’ “Imran Khan must realise now that he is in power and it would better for him not to issue so many statements,” he replied to a question with a smile on his face.
Other JI leaders including central Secretary General Liaqat Baloch, provincial chief Prof Muhammad Ibrahim, JI’s parliamentary leader in the National Assembly Sahibzada Tariqullah and others also attended the press conference.
The JI chief said the May 11 general elections were ‘engineered’ and hoped facts would soon unfold. He said that the political parties that had won majority were also complaining of rigging in the general elections. “This has happened for the first time in the electoral history of the country,” he said, underscoring the intensity of the rigging. He alleged that Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz was swerving from its manifesto by begging loan from the IMF and World Bank. “Now they have the begging bowl hanging from their neck,” he said, reminding Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif of his promise of breaking the begging bowl.
He said Nawaz Sharif had promised to solve the issue of loadshedding and price-hike in the first few months of his government, but now he was saying that these problems would end in five years. “People waited for five years for the solution of loadshedding and price-hike problems but now this government is asking them to wait for five more years,” he lamented.
About the issue of talks with militants, Syed Munawwar Hassan said the government should accept talks offer by Taliban as a first step towards starting negotiations with the militants. He said talks was the best way to solve problems but expressed concern the American government and ‘secular lobby’ in the country did not want peace talks with the Pakistani Taliban.
He hailed talks between President Hamid Karzai and Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif and said his party would welcome any step taken for peace between the two countries.
