Teaching Quran Reading Becomes Compulsory in Pakistan’s Punjab Schools

TEHRAN (IQNA) – The Punjab Curriculum and Textbook Board in Pakistan included the subject of ‘Naazrah Quran’ (reading Quran) for grades one to four as a separate compulsory subject, a notification issued on Friday stated.

Students will attend three to four classes of the subject in a week and a 50-mark annual exam will be taken to assess their progress, according to the Pakistan Observer.

The step comes as an implementation of the Punjab Compulsory Teaching of Holy Quran Act, 2018 that entails the teaching of the Holy Quran as a compulsory subject for Muslim students in all educational institutions.

The Punjab government made the subject mandatory for university students last year. The PCTB has initiated the process to introduce the subject for grades six to 12 as well.