Srinagar, Dec 16: An Expert Committee of Private Schools Association of Jammu and Kashmir which formed after a Delhi based publisher sent sample of a ISCE Board book titled History and Civics to Srinagar - depicting Prophet Muhammad PBUH and Angel Gabriel AS - has found controversial content against Islam in two books and recommended banning of books for class 5 and class 3, after finding objectionable content in the book.
PSAJK has issued an advisory asking all the schools that had prescribed the particular books in their syllabus to remove the same immediately.
The Committee informed The Himalayan Post that it’s a general book and no board is mentioned on its cover.
The Expert Committee said Mehboob Urdu published by Franklin International, New Delhi has objectionable content.
The Association was formed the committee after the recent controversy regarding objectionable content in a particular book came to fore drawing criticism across Kashmir.
“As we started checking books, we found that two Urdu books titled Mehboob Urdu are having objectionable content against Islam in them. These books have various caricatures that are not allowed in Islam. Such things hurt the sentiments of people. We have recommended for immediate removal of such books from the syllabus,” said Khurshid Bismil, Chairman of the Expert Committee.
The Schools have been asked to collect each and every copy of such books from their stock and from every student too. All the copies of such books should be destroyed, the Association advised the schools.
Furthermore the book dealers in Kashmir are also asked to remove the stock of the said books from their collection.
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