Pakistan: Textbooks seized for exhibiting Malala as ‘vital persona’

Authorities in Pakistan have seized textbooks that listed Malala Yousafzai as an ‘important personality’, apparently for her ‘controversial views’ on Islam. The college textbooks have been confiscated in Punjab province.
The Punjab Curriculum and Textbook Board (PCTB) confiscated the college textbooks meant for grade 7 college students, printed by the Oxford University Press (OUP). The textbook contained {a photograph} of Malala Yousafzai together with that of navy officer Maj Aziz Bhatti, killed within the 1965 struggle towards India.
Along with the activist, web page 33 of the guide included included Pakistan’s founder Muhammad Ali Jinnah, poet Allama Iqbal, educationist Sir Syed Ahmed Khan, first prime minister Liaqat Ali Khan and philanthropist Abdul Sattar Edhi in its listing of vital personalities. Apparently, the board has earlier denied it permission for publishing.
Meanwhile, the All-Pakistan Private Schools Federation has determined to launch a documentary on the Nobel prize winner to ‘expose’ her earlier than the youth. The president of the organisation, Kashif Mirza, mentioned, “Through this documentary film ‘I am not Malala’, we will tell 20 million students in 200,000 private schools across the country about her controversial views on Islam, marriage, pursuing of Western agenda.”
“The idea behind this is we want to expose Malala among the youth so they do not get impressed by her so-called story of struggle for women rights,” he mentioned at a press convention.
“Malala has attacked the institution of marriage and family structure by advocating that people should live in sin. No one can justify Muslims living together without marriage as it is strongly condemned in Islam,” he added.
“This book is written at the behest of western forces that used Malala for their ulterior motives. Malala has declared Islam and Pakistan’s army as ‘militant’ in her controversial book. She also criticised Quranic verses about two women’s testimony being equal to that of a man and also about the four witnesses in a rape case,” he mentioned of her autobiography ‘I am Malala’.
Malala Yousafzai, prior to now, has been criticised by Indians as properly for mouthing off platitudes relating to Kashmir following the abrogation of Article 370, the place she subtly toed the Pakistani narrative on the matter. She has additionally been criticised for sustaining a stoic silence over the pressured conversion of Hindu ladies in Pakistan.