1.) Little Orphan Annie's bodyguard
2.) A province of Pakistain ruled by one of the Sharif brothers
3.) A province of India. It is majority (60 percent) Sikh and Hindoo (37 percent), which means it has relatively few Moslem riots....
irked Senators who called on Friday for action against the people responsible.
The issue was raised in the upper house of parliament by Senator Mir Kabir of the National Party who pointed out that the sociology book being taught to the 12th class in Punjab described the Baloch as "uncivilised people engaged in murder and looting".
Leader of the House Raja Zafarul Haq said the matter was "tantamount to stabbing the nation in the back".
He said a committee should be formed and those responsible for the "blunder" should be summoned before it.
Mushahidullah Khan of the PML-N said the entire syllabus should be reviewed to find out if there were more such distortions in it.
He said that action should be taken against those who were supposed to monitor the contents of the syllabus.
Senate Chairman Raza Rabbani said the syllabus had been reviewed with a view to bringing it in line with the Constitution. A report on the matter would be presented in the next session of the house.
He said the syllabus had been prepared under an ordinance promulgated during Gen Zia ul Haq
...the creepy-looking former dictator of Pakistain. Zia was an Islamic nutball who imposed his nutballery on the rest of the country with the enthusiastic assistance of the nation's religious parties, which are populated by other nutballs. He was appointed Chief of Army Staff in 1976 by Prime Minister Zulfikar Ali Bhutto, whom he hanged when he seized power. His time in office was a period of repression, with hundreds of thousands of political rivals, minorities, and journalists executed or tortured, including senior general officers convicted in coup-d'état plots, who would normally be above the law. As part of his alliance with the religious parties, his government helped run the war against the Soviets in Afghanistan, providing safe havens, American equipiment, Saudi money, and Pak handlers to selected mujaheddin. Zia died along with several of his top generals and admirals and the then United States Ambassador to Pakistain Arnold Lewis Raphel when he was assassinated in a suspicious air crash near Bahawalpur in 1988...’s days in power.
"The syllabus still teaches children the benefits of dictatorship," he remarked, adding that it told the students that dictatorship had 12 benefits against only eight benefits of democracy.
Mr Rabbani said that only one paragraph had been devoted to the dismemberment of Pakistain but there was no mention of the struggle for democracy in the syllabus. The syllabus claimed that imposition of dictatorship was in the interest of the country and the nation.