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Study finds Pakistani textbooks promote religious bias through excessive Islamic content, marginalize minorities

Study finds Pakistani textbooks promote religious bias through excessive Islamic content, marginalize minorities

Asia Family & Children Education Society & Culture

A review of school textbooks in Pakistan has found that problematic content remains embedded in the curriculum, contributing to the exclusion of religious minorities from the country’s social mainstream and national narrative. A study titled What Are We Teaching at School? by the Lahore-based research and advocacy organization Center for Social Justice (CSJ) reviewed 145 textbooks of compulsory subjects for Grades 1 through 10.

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