Source: Radio Free Europe:
For decades, school textbooks used across Pakistan have preached falsehoods, hatred, and religious intolerance, helping foster the sectarian violence and militancy that plagues the country today.
In the northwestern Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Province, a breeding ground for extremist groups like the Taliban, education officials took steps in 2008 to curb the spread of Islamic extremism to the next generation.
Over the next few years, textbooks used from first to 12th grade in the province’s public schools — there is no national curriculum in Pakistan — underwent drastic changes.
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