Prime Minister Mir Zafarullah Khan Jamali said on Saturday that anything that is contrary to the teachings of Islam and the ideology of Pakistan should not be made part of syllabus.
He was chairing a high-level meeting attended by federal and provincial education ministers, federal and provincial secretaries of education, representatives of Azad Jammu and Kashmir and Northern Areas here at the Prime Minister's secretariat.
Referring to complaints from certain quarters that verses of the Holy Quran had been deleted from the syllabus of 9th and 10th classes, Jamali directed that all these verses of Holy Quran should be incorporated in the curriculum of 9th and 10th classes by all the provinces.
The meeting also decided that curriculum for Biology for class IX and X as approved by the competent forum and circulated in 1995 by the Ministry of Education, in so far it relates to relevant Islamic teachings, awareness of Holy Quran's teachings about animals, plants, life and origin of life may be retained and Quranic verses/translations as they existed in the past may be restored. The meeting decided that curriculum for Biology for class XI and XII as approved and circulated in 2000 by the Ministry of Education may be followed.
The meeting was informed that recommendations regarding curriculum for Islamiyat had been circulated by the Ministry of Education, after consultative process in 2003 with all the provinces.
Provincial governments may examine these afresh and recommendations for improvement, if any, may be forwarded to the Ministry of Education at the earliest.
Later, talking to Pir Syed Naseeruddin of Golara Sharif and Syed Nasir Hussain, the Prime Minister urged Ulema and religious scholars to divert their energies for promoting religious harmony and eradicating the menace of sectarianism and extremism from the society.
MNA Malik Muhammad Saifullah Khan Tiwana and former MNA Malik Ghulam Muhammad Tiwana also called on the Prime Minister and discussed matters relating to the development of Khushab district.