The Daily Telegraph reports that “a poem in a school textbook has been removed by embarrassed education officials in Pakistan after it was found that the first letters of each line spelt out “President George W Bush.”…
“An education ministry spokesman said it had no idea who wrote the poem nor how it found its way into A Textbook of English for 16-year-olds last year.
The acrostic is highly embarrassing for President Pervez Musharraf, who is already under fire at home for being allegedly pro-American and supporting the US war against terrorism.”
I guess that’s what you get when the U.S. donates money to transform the curriculum into something “closer to western ideals.”
Pakistan’s U.S.-friend philosophy—called “enlightened moderation”—seems to be neither.
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