I am forced to ask whether PTI just succumbed to pressure from religious parties or is it fully part of this move?
FAIRFAX, VA,USA: This refers to your editorial “Revising textbooks in Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa” (August 20). If what the editorial points out, that the provincial government is going to include material related to jihad in textbooks, which had been taken out during the previous regime’s tenure, really does take place, then this state of affairs is really a sad one.
Unfortunately, I am forced to ask whether the Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) just succumbed to the pressure from the religious parties or is it fully part of this move? Does this move expose the real PTI agenda? It is sad because many of the educated Pakistani youth of today, who will define the future of the Naya Pakistan that the PTI was promising, would feel let down. Have we not learned enough from the mistakes of the era of General Ziaul Haq and the consequences of the jihadi mindset, for Pakistan?
I would ask the educated and talented people of Pakistan and the youth to take note of this development and perhaps, reconsider their support for the captain.
Ali Hashim
Published in The Express Tribune, August 21st, 2013.
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