 ISLAMABAD: Federal Education Minister Lt General (r) Javed Ashraf Qazi on Saturday rejected the alleged statement by the US State Departmentâs spokesperson that Pakistanâs national curriculum contained material which fanned hatred against other religions. Talking to reporters, Javed Qazi said that some sentences of derogatory nature had been pointed out in the past in some textbooks which the Federal Education Ministry also considered wrong. âThe provincial text board concerned was asked to delete it,â he said, adding that the ministry was reviewing the entire curriculum to modernise it yet keeping the Islamic contents intact. Javed Qazi said that Islam believed in respecting the rights of the minorities and other religions, adding that the issue had been discussed during his visit to the United States and he had promised to look into the matter if any concrete reference was produced. |