PESHAWAR, Jan 8: NWFP Minister for Education Maulana Fazle Ali Haqqani has said that the federal government is trying to secularise the education system at the behest of foreign masters.

Speaking at a meeting at the civil secretariat here on Monday, he said the federal government had ignored the provincial government’s recommendations with regard to changes in the curriculum.

The meeting formed a committee comprising experts and officers of the curriculum wing to review the curriculum and identify if anything found against Islam and the ideology of Pakistan in it.

“As Muslims, we have our own religious and cultural values and the federal government is bound to make the curriculum according to them,” he stressed.

He said that the MMA government would resist secularised curriculum changes and the federal government would be forced to incorporate the MMA government’s recommendations in the curriculum.

The meeting was attended by secretary (schools and literacy) Shafiullah Khan, director (schools and literacy) Abdul Hameed Khan, director (colleges) Mohammad Amin Khan, Mardan Board chairman Fazle Mahmood and director (curriculum) Razia Begum, said an official statement.—Bureau