1 GENERAL STANDARD OF PAKISTANI TEXTBOOKS Research by: ANJUM JAMES PAUL October 2014 Publisher: Pakistan Minorities Teachers’ Association 2 Title: General Standard of Pakistani Textbooks Research by: Anjum James Paul Publisher: Pakistan Minorities Teachers‘ Association Year of Publication: October 2014 Email:
[email protected] [email protected] Blog: http://pmtapk.blogspot.com/ Skype: anjumpaul1 Cell No: +92 300 -769-5653 & + 92 333-993-3922 3 Contents Sr. Contents Page 1 Preface 5 2 Introduction of Pakistan Minorities Teachers‘ Association 7 3 Wrong information 10 4 Need to update information 21 5 Incomplete information 32 6 Lahore Resolution or Pakistan Resolution 35 7 Grammar errors 36 8 Spelling errors 51 9 Need to have sequence of text 59 10 Using Urdu language in the textbooks of English language 60 4 I dedicate this document to my parents James Paul Ernest and Celine Maria who taught me to read and write. 5 PREFACE The foundation of Pakistan Minorities Teachers‘ Association (PMTA) was laid on August 28, 2004 with a dream to make Pakistan a state where people will not be judged by their faiths but by the content of equality. Quaid-e-Azam Muhammad Ali Jinnah, the founder of Pakistan in his presidential address to the Constituent Assembly of Pakistan on August 11, 1947 said, “We are starting in the days when there is no discrimination, no distinction between one community and another, no discrimination between one caste or creed and another. We are starting with this fundamental principle that we are all citizens and equal citizens of one State.” According to National Curriculum 2006-2007, Government of Pakistan, Ministry of Education, Islamabad, the textbook is an important Teaching and Learning Resource.