For the next academic year, beginning in August 2021, the country’s major provinces, the federal capital territory, Azad Kashmir, and Gilgit Baltistan have made nazrah Quran compulsory in their curricula.
The compulsory teaching of the Holy Quran has also been introduced in federal government educational institutions and in the KP and Bahawalpur Divisions of Punjab, and will now be part of the Single National Curriculum, the first step of which will begin in the next academic session.
The SNC has also been adopted by schools operated by the Pakistan Army, Airforce, and Navy. The teaching of the Holy Quran is now mandatory in all Pakistan Navy-run schools, thanks to the efforts of former naval chief Zafar Mehmood Abbasi.
Legislation was implemented at the federal and provincial levels during the previous PMLN administration, with Balighur Rehman, the then state minister for education in Nawaz Sharif’s cabinet, playing a key role.
On the other hand, the KP government of Pervez Khattak was the first to make the Holy Quran compulsory in schools.
