The Senate has unanimously passed a bill to make teaching Arabic mandatory in primary and secondary educational institutions of the federal capital.
The ‘Compulsory Teaching of Arabic Language Bill 2020’ was introduced by the PML-N Senator, Javed Abbasi, in August 2020, according to which the Arabic language will be taught from Classes I to V and Arabic grammar from Classes VI to XII.
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The bill will become an act of the Parliament after its passage from the National Assembly and will be implemented within the next six months.
Abbasi said that Pakistani children must be taught the Arabic language as a subject, adding that if Pakistanis master this language by means of its incorporation into the schools’ curricula, they will not face any problems in the world.
“Our people are learning English, Chinese, and even Russian, so what is so difficult about learning Arabic?” he asked.
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Senator Abbasi said that Arabic is the fifth most-spoken language in the world, and if Pakistani students learn it, they will get more jobs in the Middle Eastern countries.
He stated that the law is applicable to the “students in all the educational institutions of the Islamabad Capital Territory (ICT), including the educational institutions affiliated with the Federal Board of Intermediate and Secondary Education, and all public sector institutions owned and controlled by the federal government, wherever they may be”.
