On Friday, Federal Education Minister Rana Tanveer Hussain announced that the O-level textbooks promoting objectionable material had been seized.
The minister disclosed it while briefing the Senate on the situation and provided assurance that A and O-level textbooks would be thoroughly examined going forward.
The minister informed the Upper House of the Parliament last month that actions were being taken to have the offensive material removed from the Pakistani O-level curriculum.
Additionally, he had stated that he would notify Cambridge to delete the content.
The matter was first taken up by the PTI Senators Mohsin Aziz and Faisal Saleem Rahman in Senate, stating that a controversial chapter of ‘Same Sex Family’ was being taught in the O-level syllabus. They called the content ‘inappropriate’ and contrary to the Islamic values of Pakistani society.
Rana Tanveer Hussain is a Pakistani politician who has been a member of the National Assembly of Pakistan since August 2018. Previously, he was a member of the National Assembly between 1985 and May 2018.
He served as Minister for Defence Production and Minister for Science and Technology, in the Abbasi cabinet from 2017 to 2018. Previously he served as the Minister for Defence Production and the Minister for Science and Technology in the Third Sharif ministry. A leader of the Pakistan Muslim League (N), Hussain previously briefly held the cabinet portfolio of Minister for Defence Production during the Gillani ministry in 2008
