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| 'Jamia Hafsa built on illegally occupied land' |
| 2007-04-10 |
| Federal Education Minister Javed Ashraf Qazi said on Monday the Capital Development Authority (CDA), the Islamabad administration and other departments concerned were responsible for the present madrassa crisis. Talking to reporters at the National University of Modern Languages, Qazi said the Education Ministry had made repeated requests to the CDA, the Islamabad administration and other departments to get the land where the Jamia Hafsa building has been constructed vacated from the Lal Masjid administration, but no action was taken. The minister said the illegally occupied land was owned by the National Book Foundation and Children’s Library – both under the administrative control of the Education Ministry. He said that the land must be vacated before it can be handed over to the Education Ministry. Qazi admitted that the government’s policy on the registration of madrassas had yet to produce the desired results. However, he claimed that enrolment in madrassas had dropped in the last few months, but he refused to disclose the details, saying that the Religious Affairs Ministry was dealing with madrassa registrations. |
| Posted by:Fred |