 Pakistan has assured the United States administration that it will set up an inter-madrassa board within a couple of months to bring seminaries into the education mainstream.
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"The assurance was given during President General Pervez Musharraf's recent visit to the US," sources told Daily Times.
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Federal Minister for Religious Affairs Ejazul Haq, who was part of the president's delegation, briefed US President George W Bush about the government's plans to register seminaries and set up an inter-madrassa board to conduct examinations. "During the meeting, the federal minister informed the US president that as many as 12,000 seminaries had been registered," the sources said.
The president would select the chairman of the inter-madrassa board and Ittehad-e-Tanzimat-e-Madaris-e-Dinya (ITMD), a grouping of five wafaqs, would nominate the deputy chairman, each for three-year terms. |