(Pakistan News & Features Services)
Textbook publishers staged a peaceful demonstration in front of the office of the National Curriculum Council (NCC) in Islamabad to press for the protection of their rights.
“Our biggest demand and question is as to why our rulers and bureaucrats could not get out from the slavery of their British masters? Undoubtedly the most logical reason behind it is that the education system of our country remains in the hands of the British and their slaves,” Fawaz Niaz, President, Textbook Publishers Association (TPA), reckoned.
“The incorporation of Single National Curriculum (SNC) is a positive step undertaken by the present government. The publishers accepted it in good faith and developed new books in accordance with the guidelines of SNC. But when it came to the UK publishers they refused to accept it and their cronies in the federal government allowed them full freedom,” the TPA President alleged.
“We, the textbook publishers, will not allow injustices with the nation and we will not let them take U-turn. Our objective is to have uniform education system in Pakistan. We will not let the innocent people of the country getting victimized. We will expose the conspiracies being hatched by individuals with vested interests,” Fawaz Niaz asserted.
He claimed that more than 500 textbook publishers from all over the country took part in the protest opposite the NCC office in Islamabad on October 13.
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