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The government has assured the Ittehad-e-Tanzeemat-e-Madars-e-Deenya (ITMD) that it would amend the Societies Registration Act of 1860 according to the alliance’s proposals to remove its concerns about the ordinance. Maulana Mufti Abdur Rashid, the ITMD general secretary, told a news conference on Friday that the provincial and the national assemblies would include ITMD concerns in a bill while tabling amendments in the law. He said the seminaries would not cooperate with the government in the registration process until the assemblies addressed their concerns before approving the ordinance.Maulana Rashid said that the registrar would have no power to comment and reject the registration of a seminary, and that seminaries without hostels did not need registration. The ITMD held three meetings with the government on Thursday and Friday, including one with the prime minister. Maulana Rashid said that it had been agreed upon (by the government and the ITMD) that seminaries would not be bound to mention the details of their donors to the registrar. Every seminary will report its educational performance and submit a copy of their annual audit report to the registrar and there will be no need for separate registrations for different campuses of the same seminary.