According to Umair Javed, the purported purpose of the new authority is to get Pakistan out of a selectively portrayed cultural breakdown and moral crisis afflicting all aspects of social life. Hussain says Akram advocates conspiracy theories (espousing that 9/11 was a false flag operation by the US), advocates regional expansionism by Pakistan and his concept of rule by elites of elites fascist. Zahid Hussain says Imran Khan's PTI government has already caused huge damage to education in Pakistan by introducing the
Single National Curriculum which would reinforce a closed mindset and additional measures to 'Islamise' the system, which will lead to a further decline in educational standards. Due to the controversies surrounding the founder Chairman he resigned two months into his formal tenure. In his place, a respected academic, Anis Ahmad (Ph.D. Temple University, USA) currently Vice Chancellor of the private Riphah University and formerly a Vice President of the International Islamic University Islamabad, was appointed as Chairman. He resigned due to personal issues. At present Khurshid Ahmad Nadeem is the Chairman Authority. He assumed charge on August 8, 2023. Khurshid Ahmad Nadeem is a leading public intellectual, scholar, author, opinion maker and media person. He was awarded ‘Pride of Performance’ in 2016 by the President of Pakistan for his outstanding contribution in the field of literature and journalism. He was member of Council of Islamic Ideology (CII), the constitutional body to advise parliament, federal and provincial governments regarding Islamic aspects of legislation and law making. He authored many books, including ‘Islamic Concept of Crime and Punishment’, ‘Political Islam’, ‘An Alternate Discourse’, ‘Understanding of Islam in Twentieth Century’, ‘Islam and Pakistan’, ’Islam and Climate Change’. Mr. Nadeem has also been Speech writer to the Prime Minister of Pakistan (1997-1999), Secretary, Commission on Islamization of Education, Government of Pakistan (1999-2005), General Manager (Religious Content) Pakistan Television Corporation. He has been writing regular column in leading Urdu newspapers and hosting talk shows in different TV channels. Mr. Nadeem was Chairman of Organization for Research and Education (ORE), a nongovernmental organization working since 2003 to sensitize the society about shared values of humanity and religions. He believes that Pakistani society desperately needs an alternate intellectual and religious discourse to address the social problems like religious extremism, intolerance terrorism and violence. == See also ==