The Federal Ministry of Education has clarified the misconceptions and fake rumors about Single National Curriculum (SNC) in a press note. The press note stated that there are no Biology textbooks in the SNC as it has been only approved till grade V. Biology is a subject that is taught beginning from Grade IX and no textbooks for Biology have so far been finalized. Therefore, the news that the Ulema Board has decreed that all human figures in Biology textbooks be covered with appropriate clothes to protect their modesty is inaccurate.
The Ministry also cleared up another fake news that Qaris from madrassahs would be appointed in all schools, public and private, to teach the Holy Quran. This press note identified the said statement as false and clarified that no such order has been made by the government at any level and Qaris are not mandated as teachers.
The press note further clarified that the SNC has taken special care to ensure that no material in it offends the sensibilities of any of the minorities in Pakistan. Therefore, the circulating news that SNC discriminates against minorities is not true at all.
The Education Ministry marked these rumors as a collective propaganda by vested interests to discredit the remarkable effort made by the Government to devise a single national curriculum (SNC) for all schools in Pakistan.