LAHORE – More and More people have started calling the Beaconhouse “Enemyof the State,” the institution finally had to come out and responded.
The Beaconhose called this social media outburst as a propaganda campaignagainst it.
Here is the full statement:
Beaconhouse is deeply grieved to note a sudden flurry of social mediaactivity labelling it an ‘enemy of the state’. This engineered hatecampaign on 3 major social media platforms cannot be further removed fromreality. The spirit of patriotism and commitment to our beloved land isdeeply embedded in all Beaconhouse students, employees, and owners. Ourstudents demonstrate pride in their national identity, even as theirachievements take them to global platforms. Moreover, many of our schoolshave been operating in army cantonments for decades and we feel privilegedto be a school of choice for the defenders of our country.
This hate campaign was initially launched by an ex-employee of TheEducators who was terminated for physically assaulting his line manager. AnFIR was lodged against this individual on 26-12-2017 as well as adefamation suit in the District Court Multan on 06-04-2018 and a criminalcomplaint in the FIA Cybercrime Circle on 24-02-2018. This individual,however, does not alone have the capacity to sponsor a campaign of thismagnitude. He has become a willing pawn in the hands of certain mediaindividuals whose motives are still unclear. What is 100% clear, however,is that this hate campaign is not organic. It is fully engineered andsponsored, and we have lodged another strong application with the FIACybercrime Circle to identify and take action against these miscreants.
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The core issue in this campaign pertains to the highly regrettable butinadvertent misrepresentation of the Pakistan map in the textbooks of TheEducators. The Educators has in the past acknowledged this human error andapologized to its parent body. Attempts have been underway to rectify itsince 2015 when this was first brought to light. This process has howevertaken longer than expected because there are 267 images of the Pakistan mapin 21 textbooks/workbooks/teachers guides for Social Studies, History andGeography from Classes 1 to 8 featuring political borders, populationdensity, rainfall, topography, and Pre-Partition maps. Many of these mapshave since been corrected, but unfortunately, not all mistakes wereidentified on time, resulting in further misprints in 2016.
All textbooks of The Educators have once again been proofread and theproposed drafts submitted to the Punjab Curriculum & Textbook Board (PCTB)in May 2018 for their official approval, which is now awaited.If The Educators truly wanted to promote an anti-Pakistan agenda, why wouldit have correctly represented political boundaries in the majority of themaps? Moreover, since the real target of this hate campaign is Beaconhouse,why has Beaconhouse not made the same blunder in its own textbooks?Answers to the above may be deduced by any reasonable and fair-mindedperson: that it was nothing more than human error.
