National Assembly Deputy Speaker Zahid Akram Durrani on Friday banned the Allama Iqbal Open University’s ‘Imraniyat’ (sociology) book for the 11th class as it was projecting allegedly “anti-Islamic values” in the youth.
Giving his ruling for banning the book, he asked the quarters concerned to take legal action against those who drafted it and permitted it to be published and allowed it to be taught to the students.
Talking on a point of order, Jamaat-e-Islami’s MNA Maulana Abdul Akbar Chitrali raised the issue that in the said book, the ‘veil of woman’ was allegedly portrayed as one of the main hurdles in the progress of society.
He said the said book allegedly promoted Riba (usury) by trying to build a positive perception by giving examples that it had played in the economic development of countries.
Demanding a ban on the book, Maulana Chitrali proposed that the government should take stern action against all those allegedly involved in the compilation of the book which was “propagating anti-Islamic values in our young generation”.
Published in The Express Tribune, December 3rd, 2022.
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