[DAWN] Punjab 1.) Little Orphan Annie's bodyguard
2.) A province of Pakistain ruled by one of the Sharif brothers
3.) A province of India. It is majority (60 percent) Sikh and Hindoo (37 percent), which means it has relatively few Moslem riots....
Minister for Law and Parliamentary Affairs Rana Sanaullah said on Tuesday that "not a single madressah (seminary) in Pakistain's most populous province was reported to have any links with militancy."
Addressing a presser at Punjab Assembly Cafeteria on Tuesday, Sanaullah said "geo-tagging of 13,787 seminaries had been completed" where about a million students were acquiring religious education.
The provincial law minister and Pakistain Moslem League -- N stalwart went on to say that law enforcement agencies had completed search operations in hostels and universities, following a "zero tolerance policy against terrorism."
The announcement by the senior provincial minister comes just a day after Federal Interior Minister Chaudhry Nisar Ali in a presser conceded that the government needed to expedite efforts as far as cleansing seminaries was concerned -- identifying it as one of the areas in the National Action Plan requiring further attention.
But Nisar had gone on to say "not all seminaries were breeding grounds for terrorism," adding that most seminaries in the country were "patriotic and had been targets themselves."
While laying out an elaborate progress report on the National Action Plan (NAP), Nisar had said terrorism in the country came down by 70 per cent and that fighting and cracking down religious, sectarian terrorist outfits would be a top priority in the next few months, with special focus on targeting those who "glorify terrorists."