KARACHI: Students stage demo against exclusion of Quranic verses
KARACHI, March 16: A large number of students from various educational institutions of the city staged a protest march on Tuesday against the exclusion of Quranic verses from syllabus and government’s bid to ‘secularise’ curricula.
The protesters marched from the Federal Urdu University up to Karachi University. They also condemned exclusion of Quranic verses from the syllabi. The protesters were carrying banners and placards inscribed with demands to include Quranic verses in the syllabi, removal of federal education minister and an end to US intervention into country’s affairs.
The rally was organized by the Islami Jamiat Talaba and was also attended by activists of Imamia Students Organization. Heavy contingents of rangers and police escorted the rally, while traffic police had closed one side of the University Road to facilitate the marchers.
Later, speaking to the participants of the rally in front of the Silver Jubilee Gate of Karachi University, Nazim IJT Tahir Akbar demanded immediate removal of Federal Education Minister Zobaida Jalal. -PPI
Dil se kesee delete karogeee.
i dont think the school curriculum ha smuch impact on the 'thought process' anyway....
To secularise education system in pakistan is absolutely necessary for keeping peace within the country as well as internationally.
Religion based dogmatism is already destroying the country and things will only get worse unless religion is kept out of pakistani politics. Religions cannot be proven real in real world and therefore spiritualism cannot decide matters regarding materialism. If anyone tries will only suffer embarrasment because if one cannot prove even existence of god then how can that person be given the charge to run the lives of others according to one's own baseless assumptions? It is time reason was allowed to take root and people were educated for their own good, for they are the country. Dogmatic indoctrination must be stopped if we are to succeed.
It is time we started questioning things and judged them for their validity based upon impartially collected proofs instead of being fooled by others into believing the unbelievable things.
There is nothing wrong with being faithful so long as one knows the limitations of one's faith. Telling everyone that I cannot prove existence of my god yet in the same breath that I am agent of god and know everything better than everyone else because god told me, does it at all add up? Of course not. If one does not know anything about one's god to prove to others, such a person has no right to tell anyone else what they should or should not do as for as their worldly lives are concerned that are driven by their needs.
It is for this reason religion must be kept out of worldly matters like setting up of material goals and their political, social, cultural and ecomonoc systems, structures and practices to achieve them. The goals should be set as to what people's worldly needs are and not what god needs of people. People should keep their faith where it belongs or they will live to regret it and many are.
If one wants to partake in worldly matters, one needs to understand how the world works ie the mechanisms involved, otherwise we cannot use natural world to our advantage or to get out of harms way. It is time for to wake up to reality of life. If we want to prove things we must learn how reasoning process works or how to reason things.
The protest by student is right in the sense that we must not withdraw relgious education from schools but learn to rationalise it and study religions critically not dogmatically.