Washington, Sept 15 (ANI): The US State Department has expressed concern over the growing number of unregulated madrassas in Pakistan, saying it is teaching extremism despite the government's efforts to regulate them.
"A March 2007 report indicated that unregulated, extremist madrassas in Karachi continued to thrive in the sprawling city with a large population of young, unemployed men," the department said in the Pakistan chapter of its annual report on religious freedom.
Quoting a report by the International Crisis Group, it said that after trying hard for five years to reform madrassas, the government's programme had not fully succeeded, as extremist groups were operating mosques and madrassas in the open in Karachi and elsewhere.
Acknowledging that madrassas were traditional institutions for Muslims seeking a purely religious education, the department, however, said that in recent years "many madrassas have taught extremist doctrine in support of terrorism."
It further noted that in an attempt to curb the spread of extremism, the 2002 Madrassa Registration Ordinance required all madrassas to register with one of the five independent boards (wafaqs), cease accepting foreign financing, and accept foreign students only with the consent of their government, the Dawn reported.
Quoting statistic provided by the Religious Affairs Ministry, it said that approximately 11,000 out of an estimated 13,000 to 15,000 madrassas had registered by the end of the reporting period.
The report went on to say that 95 per cent of foreign madrassa students departed by the July 2005 deadline imposed by President Pervez Musharraf.
Pointing at the framework laid by Musharraf in December 2005 for cooperative registration of madrassas with the government, including a prohibition on the teaching of sectarian or religious hatred and violence, the department said the government and the independent madrassa boards had agreed to a phased introduction of secular subjects, including math, English, and science at all madrassas.
All wafaqs mandated the elimination of teaching that promoted religious or sectarian intolerance and terrorist or extremist recruitment at madrassas, the report said, adding that some unregistered madrassas in the Federally Administered Tribal Areas and northern Balochistan continued to teach extremism. (ANI)
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