New DelhiFormer Pakistan Prime Minister Pervez Musharraf, who passed away on Sunday, was once listed among the “six great personalities” of the world in a Class 3 textbook in India, which was withdrawn after a controversy. The book – “Moral Education, Common Sense and Yoga” – being read at a private school in Jabalpur, Madhya Pradesh, describes the former military dictator considered the architect of the 1999 Kargil war with India as “six great personalities” in one. as depicted. Also put up the pictures of the chapters.
The Christ Asha School in Awadhpuri had withdrawn the book in 2015 after the District Bar Association (DBA) took strong objection to the chapter and complained to the district authorities in this regard.
The DBA had said, “This is highly objectionable. The Kargil war took place in Pakistan under Musharraf’s regime, in which many Indian soldiers lost their lives.”
“It is a folly on the part of the state and central education departments that at this young age children are being taught a lesson which shows Musharraf as a great personality. It is tantamount to playing with the future of children ”
A delegation of DBA filed a petition to the District Magistrate (Collector) demanding action against the author and publisher of the book.
The Delhi-born general, who seized power in a coup in 1999 and served as Pakistani President from 2001-2008, died at the age of 79 in Dubai after a prolonged illness. He lived in self-imposed exile in the United Arab Emirates to avoid criminal charges against him in Pakistan.
Following his failed misadventure at Kargil, Musharraf overthrew the then Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif in a bloodless coup in 1999 and ruled Pakistan in various positions from 1999 to 2008 – first as Chief Executive of Pakistan and later as President In form of.