What is the most blatant lie taught through Pakistan textbooks? - Pakistan - DAWN.COM
Just came across this article. What do you guys think?
Re: Lies in Pakistan textbooks.
Some truth, some exaggeration in the article.
"The most blatant lie in Pakistan Studies textbooks is the idea that Pakistan was formed solely because of a fundamental conflict between Hindus and Muslims. This idea bases itself on the notion of a civilisational divide between monolithic Hindu and Muslim identities, which simply did not exist...."
"the notion that its formation was based on a long-standing and fundamental conflict between Hindus and Muslims is deeply problematic...."
If not religious divide, then what was the basis for formation of Pakistan? You can agree or disagree with the idea of religious divide but you cannot say that Pakistan was created for cultural, linguistic or geographical reasons.
".....glosses over the reality that Islamic empires also fought each other for power. After all, Babar had to defeat Ibrahim Lodi, and thus, the Delhi Sultanate, for the Mughal period to begin...."
I remember reading about it in school. Except for Jahangir, none of the other Indian dynasties are discussed in religious sense.
My complaint was rather that textbooks spent too much time on Mughal empire and around and not much on history of India before the invaders arrived from the West.
Re: Lies in Pakistan textbooks.
Pakistan as the name implies is the land of the pure!
and that is No Lie! you can take it to the Bank! :)
we let the rest of the countries in the region define their own Identities! if they want to be slaves to their old British Masters so be it we have no quarrel with that!
as far as Dawn the newspaper is concerned it is a Leftist kind of print shop! free to say what they think, just one man's opinion does not make it right!