Former federal minister and PPP leader Aitzaz Ahsan in a letter to the Federal Education Minister informing him that there was nothing about the Jesus Christ in the syllabus book of 'Akhlaqiyat' published by the Textbook Boards of Sindh and Punjab for 9th class.
In an interview with a private TV channel, he said that the textbook contained essays on Hazrat Musa (AS), Buddha, Zooraster, Bhagwan Sri Krishna, Guru Nanak and Hazrat Muhammad (PBUH). But they did not include anything on Jesus Christ. He asked Federal Education Minister Javed Ashraf Qazi to tell the nation as to who are responsible for it.
In his letter he has also mentioned miserable condition of minorities in Pakistan. He has observed that despite government's tall claims situation of minorities were deteriorating. He said the situation aggravated after General Ziaul Haq's Islamisation
Mentioning a recent speech of the federal education minister wherein he said that there was 98 percent Muslims in Pakistan, he has written in his letter that there were 18 to 20 percent people belonging to minorities at the time of partition. He said that Christians are important minority and on the wake of excesses by the government they started leaving the country.