Pakistani Education System

[dedgod]

Perhaps explains why so many of the recent terrorists/terrorist plots originate from Pakistan-

http://thenews.jang.com.pk/daily_detail.asp?id=42349

The numbers mentioned in the article are staggerring...



Here's the official curriculum document for classes K-V, National Bureau of Curriculum and Textbooks, Federal Ministry of Education, Government of Pakistan (1995): " At the completion of Class-V, the child should be able to: Make speeches on jihad and shahadat; India's evil designs against Pakistan; acknowledge and identify forces that may be working against Pakistan [pg 154]." The document further instructs teachers: "To judge their spirits while making speeches on jihad….." Another prescribed 'learning outcome' is to "recognise the importance of jihad in every sphere of life." Textbooks prescribed by the Punjab Textbook Board eulogise "jihad and shahadat" and routinely urge students to "become mujahids and martyrs". Middle school textbooks have long been urging children to be "willing to die as martyrs for Islam."


whatever happenned to math and science ???????

[TheBelgian]

Who needs math and science when Allah is on your side?

[MPNFL]

that is sad, hopefully this has changed (the source was from '95)

[Aeroflot]

I think it's quite safe to say that it is still similar.

[LRPV]

Any comments MG3????

[dedgod]

that is sad, hopefully this has changed (the source was from '95)
Sadly i don't think there is any incentive to change..

In the short term this jihadism is useful for the government...it takes attention away from any failures of the administration, channels the frustration of the population away from the governments failures..and provides useful recruits to fight in afghanistan, kashmir and who knows where else...And provides a useful 2nd line of defence against, (imo an imaginary)indian invasion....

In the long term this hatred will consume the country itself (even though it is currently directed at "foreigners") ..you already see that in the incessant violence between shia and sunni..

But in the long term, most politicians and dictators will be dead...so what do they care ? and they are the ones in the best position to effect a change..

[thscott83]

Gotta love our "friends".

[MPNFL]

Sadly i don't think there is any incentive to change..

In the short term this jihadism is useful for the government...it takes attention away from any failures of the administration, channels the frustration of the population away from the governments failures..and provides useful recruits to fight in afghanistan, kashmir and who knows where else...And provides a useful 2nd line of defence against, (imo an imaginary)indian invasion....

In the long term this hatred will consume the country itself (even though it is currently directed at "foreigners") ..you already see that in the incessant violence between shia and sunni..

But in the long term, most politicians and dictators will be dead...so what do they care ? and they are the ones in the best position to effect a change..

with Musharraf in power there is bound to be change in such language in texts.