The decision to close the seminaries was taken by the Additional Deputy Commissioner and other security officials.
Police stations within the jurisdiction of the 41 seminaries have been instructed to enforce the closure.
They include 18 seminaries of Police Station I-9, 14 of Abpara Police Station, 6 of Shahzad Town and 3 from Secretariat Police station.
Sources said the seminaries will be shut from 18th till 24th March.
The government has recently taken action on the monitoring of funds for seminaries accused of promoting militancy and extremism.
Measures have been taken in the aftermath of the December 16th Taliban attack on a school in Beautiful Downtown Peshawar
...capital of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (formerly known as the North-West Frontier Province), administrative and economic hub for the Federally Administered Tribal Areas of Pakistan. Peshawar is situated near the eastern end of the Khyber Pass, convenient to the Pak-Afghan border. Peshawar has evolved into one of Pakistan's most ethnically and linguistically diverse cities, which means lots of gunfire.
in which over 140 people were killed, majority of them children.
In January, Interior Minister Chaudhry Nisar Ali Khan
...
Currently the Interior Minister of Pakistain. He is the senior leader of the Pak Moslem League (N) and a close aide to Nawaz Uncle FesterSharif. He is noted for his vocal anti-American railing in the National Assembly. However (comma) Khan told the U.S. ambassador that he was in fact pro-American but he and the PML-N would have to be critical of US actions in order to remain
publicly credible. Khan cited his wife and children's US citizenship as proof, which means he's lying to one side or the other and probably both. He wears a wig, but you probably guessed that. since hair doesn't grow naturally in that shape or texture...
met with representatives of madressahs who agreed that religious seminaries found involved in abetting terrorist activities would be dealt with in accordance with the law.
Which isn't the same thing as saying "will be shut down."