I usually do not post anything about Pakistan because making fun of them is too easy. But then this is .. just too easy

Alexander Pope’s The Rape of the Lock was published in 1714.

After more than 250 years of being acknowledged as a classic, a review conducted by the Punjab University in Lahore finds the title itself ‘vulgar’.

And Pope isn’t the only one to have raised the hackles of Dr Shahbaz Arif, who headed the review committee. Poems by Indian author Vikram Seth and W H Auden, and even an all-time favourite of kids — Jonathan Swift’s Gulliver’s Travels — were panned in one go as ‘vulgar and containing sexual connotations’, Guardian has reported.

The review appears to have been triggered by complaints made about the syllabus by the wife of a retired army general.

She criticised the inclusion of two poems, including one by Auden, which she said promoted Jews, and a poem by Vikram Seth, who she said was too pro-Indian. She also said the poems of Adrienne Rich were unsuitable for study because she is a lesbian.

The general’s wife passed her criticism on to the wife of Pakistan President General Pervez Musharraf, who in turn asked the retired army officers who run the university to take up the case,

(Rediff)
Update:
Shanti beat me to it by 1 minute 15 seconds.