Jihad won’t be removed from school curriculum: education minister

Jihad won’t be removed from school curriculum: education minister

ISLAMABAD: The government will not remove the subject of jihad from the school curriculum, Education Minister Javed Ashraf Qazi said on Tuesday. The minister told reporters after a prize distribution ceremony at a school here that the government’s new education policy will be implemented from 2007. “ Geography and history will be re-introduced in the new education policy that will be implemented in 2007,” he said. “We will teach Islamiat from class one to twelve.” The new syllabus will also include the subject of human rights, he added. The minister said a census would be carried out to ascertain the literacy rate in Pakistan. “The results of a census regarding the literacy rate in the country will be available in June 2006,” he said. He said students will be taught in both English and Urdu. Science, maths and history will be taught in English and the other subjects in Urdu, he said. Online