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Islamabad, Jul 13: Pakistan authorities have confiscated copies of a faculty textbook in Punjab province for printing the image of Nobel laureate Malala Yousufszai within the listing of necessary personalities, apparently sad with the UK-based activist’s controversial views on Islam.
The youngest Nobel Prize laureate, Malala, who turned 24 on Monday, is thought for human rights advocacy, particularly the schooling of girls and kids in her native Swat Valley in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province in northwest Pakistan, the place the native Tehrik-i-Taliban Pakistan had at occasions banned women from attending college.
Pakistan’s personal faculties’ affiliation on Monday had launched a documentary on Malala for her controversial views on Islam, marriage and her pursuit of the Western agenda. On the identical day, the Punjab Curriculum and Textbook Board (PCTB) confiscated the social research guide for grade 7 revealed by the Oxford College Press (OUP) for printing the image of Malala alongside that of navy officer Maj Aziz Bhatti, who was killed within the 1965 conflict with India, within the listing of necessary personalities, the Daybreak newspaper reported on Tuesday.
Moreover Malala and Bhatti, photos of another necessary personalities had been revealed on web page 33 of the guide that included Pakistan’s founder Muhammad Ali Jinnah, poet Allama Iqbal, educationist Sir Syed Ahmed Khan, first prime minister Liaqat Ali Khan and legendary philanthropist Abdul Sattar Edhi. Malala on the age of 17 was the co-recipient of the 2014 Nobel Peace Prize for her wrestle in opposition to the suppression of kids and younger folks and for the proper of all kids to schooling. She shared the prize with Kailash Satyarthi, a kids’s rights activist from India.
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Quoting sources, the report stated the books had been already circulated in varied instructional institutes and the PCTB, police and different businesses had been conducting raids on outlets to confiscate copies of the guide. On Monday, a workforce of officers performed a raid on the OUP workplace in Mini Market, Gulberg space of Lahore and confiscated all the inventory of the guide.
In addition they handed over a letter to the press, stating that the guide had not been issued a No-Objection Certificates (NOC). Quoting a writer, the report stated the guide was submitted to the PCTB for a evaluation and to hunt an NOC in 2019. The board, after reviewing its contents, didn’t approve it for publishing.
“The Oxford College Press has revealed the guide regardless of not being issued the NOC,” the writer stated.
Addressing a press convention at his workplace in Gulberg in Lahore on Monday, the All-Pakistan Non-public Faculties Federation president Kashif Mirza had stated: “By this documentary movie — I’m not Malala – we are going to inform 20 million college students in 200,000 personal faculties throughout the nation about her controversial views on Islam, marriage, pursuing of Western agenda.” “The concept behind that is we need to expose Malala among the many youth because it doesn’t get impressed by her so-called story of wrestle for ladies’s rights,” he stated.
Mirza stated in her guide “I’m Malala”, the Nobel Peace winner has written extremely controversial content material which is opposite to the teachings of Islam, Quranic injunctions, ideology of Islam and Pakistan’s founder Mohammad Ali Jinnah and the Pakistan Military.