The Punjab School Education Department has directed all divisional, district and chief executive officers of the schools to extend teaching of the Holy Quran from primary to higher secondary.
It further directed all the divisional directors and additional directors to monitor the teaching and learning process of the subject in the schools throughout the division and reports on a monthly basis should be submitted to the directorate on a regular basis till the 5th of every month.
Punjab Teachers Union leader Rana Liaqat told media outlets that said that the government should appoint more than one Quran teacher in high and higher secondary schools of the province to teach Quran to students of grade 1 to 12.
