Pakistani private school authorities have banned such schools from having copies of the book by Malala Yousafzai, the teenage education activist who was seriously injured when she was shot by the Taliban in 2012.
Kashif Mirza, chief of the All Pakistan Private Schools Federation, is quoted as saying that the book, “I Am Malala,” contains anti-Islamic and anti-Pakistani content.
Up to 40,000 affiliated schools are affected by the ban. Adeeb Javedani, president of the All Pakistan Private Schools Management Association, also called on the government to bar it from school curriculums.
Private school officials allege that Malala is being promoted by Western powers for their own interests.
They say her book does not show appropriate respect for the Prophet Muhammad and also has positive words for novelist Salman Rushdie, who was accused of blasphemy by extremists for his book "The Satanic Verses.”
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