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Removal of hate material from textbooks sought

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PESHAWAR: Speakers at a function on Thursday urged the government to remove hate lessons against other religions from textbooks to create harmony and brotherhood among minorities and Muslims in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa. The programme, titled, “Uprooting Religious Intolerance through Formal Education System in Pakistan” was organised jointly by National Commission for Justice and Peace (NCJP) and […]


Hate material in books has impacted entire generations

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LAHORE: Panelists discussed on Tuesday the impact of hate material in textbooks on society at a conference by the National Commission for Justice and Peace on “Uprooting Religious Intolerance through Formal Education in Pakistan”. They discussed a Supreme Court judgement of 2014 which is the very first reinterpretation of Article 20, which calls for religious […]


Aggression against the blind

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The discrimination that the blind have to face on a daily basis in all spheres of human activity finds manifestation in the linguistic aggression that the blind are all too familiar with and suffer from all the time. As the sighted try to come to grips with their own realities, they invariably use language that […]