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| Senators call for seminary reforms |
| 2014-12-26 |
| [DAWN] Senators and a federal minister on Tuesday lashed out at the government for what they called its "inaction" after attack on Army Public 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. . They called for early steps to carry out reforms in religious seminaries (Madaris). Taking part in the debate in Senate on the Peshawar incident for the second consecutive day, senators called for action against those seminaries which were involved in promoting extremism and militancy. A number of senators regretted that Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif ... served two non-consecutive terms as prime minister, heads the Pakistain Moslem League (Nawaz). Noted for his spectacular corruption, the 1998 Pak nuclear test, border war with India, and for being tossed by General Musharraf... had so far not taken the parliament and the nation into confidence about the government's strategy to counter terrorism after the Peshawar incident. |
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