LAHORE: Special Assistant to Prime Minister on Religious Harmony Hafiz Muhammad Tahir Mahmood Ashrafi has announced that the Muttahida Ulema Board has unanimously decided to exclude extremism content from curriculum.
Addressing a press conference following a meeting of the board in Lahore, the special assistant said that it was decided that single national curriculum would be reviewed and any irrelevant material related to extremism would be excluded.
He said that presently as many as 307 textbooks had been reviewed adding that the decision on rest of the books would be made during the next week.
Ashrafi said that on the instruction of Prime Minister Imran Khan, the Christmas greetings were extended to the Christian community. He said that the events were also being organized in the country in connection with the Christmas.
Expressing sorrow and regret over the Sialkot tragedy, Ashrafi said that killing of Sri Lankan citizen Priyantha Kumara in Pakistan was a great misfortune that brought a bad name.
“Islam does not allow any such heinous act,” reiterates Tahir Mehmood, adding that the courts should also decide such cases as soon as possible so that justice should be provided adding that the guilty should also be punished accordingly.
In response to a question, Hafiz Ashrafi said that if Maulana Fazlur Rehman was expecting to be congratulated on winning the local body elections in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, he should first congratulate Imran Khan on becoming the prime minister.
Commenting on the Afghanistan situation, Tahir Ashrafi said that Pakistan’s stance over Afghan peace was globally acknowledged as well as the foreign ministers of the member countries during the recent meeting of Organization of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) held in Islamabad had also appreciated the efforts of Prime Minister Imran Khan.
He said that as a result of the OIC meeting, the problems of Afghans would be solved soon adding that the peace would prevail in Afghanistan.
