JUI-F rejects Sindh’s seminary registration bill
Senator Atta calls govt move to control madrassas ‘unacceptable’
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ISLAMABAD:
The Jamiat Ulema-i-Islam-Fazl (JUI-F) on Saturday declared its opposition to the Sindh Madrassa Registration Bill, 2106 and asked the provincial government to review its decision.
The party rejected the bill during a meeting chaired by Maulana Fazlur Rehman, JUI-F Secretary-General Hafiz Hussain Ahmed told The Express Tribune.
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The Sindh cabinet recently approved the bill, which will now be presented in the provincial assembly. Under the proposed bill, every seminary will have to be approved by the local commissioner.
Earlier, the provincial government assured the Sindh chapter of the JUI-F to take the party and other religious scholars into confidence before presenting the bill in the provincial assembly.
The assurance came after the JUI-F held a protest last week outside the CM House, urging the government to review its decision and arrest the killers of Khalid Mehmood Soomro, a senior party leader who was shot dead in 2014.
“JUI-F is not against the registration of seminaries … this exercise has been going on for the past five years,” said Senator Maulana Attaur Rehman of JUI-F. The problem, according to him, is that the government intended to control Madrassas, which was unacceptable.
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The lawmaker said that office-bearers running seminaries had always cooperated with the government and they would continue to cooperate, but “we will not … give up control of Madrassas”.
According to him, the federal government had struck an agreement in 2010 with seminaries in which it was decided that Madrassas would be registered, but their curriculum would remain unchanged.
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“How can the provincial or federal government take such steps without consulting the main stakeholders?” asked the lawmaker, who insisted that CM Murad Ali Shah should himself look into the matter.
Senator Rehman, the younger brother of JUI-F chief Maulana Fazlur Rehman, said the party had many options such as staging a protest outside the CM House in Karachi and mobilising public across the country. Fazl’s party currently operates hundreds of seminaries in Karachi and Sindh’s rural areas.
Published in The Express Tribune, September 4th, 2016.
The Jamiat Ulema-i-Islam-Fazl (JUI-F) on Saturday declared its opposition to the Sindh Madrassa Registration Bill, 2106 and asked the provincial government to review its decision.
The party rejected the bill during a meeting chaired by Maulana Fazlur Rehman, JUI-F Secretary-General Hafiz Hussain Ahmed told The Express Tribune.
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The Sindh cabinet recently approved the bill, which will now be presented in the provincial assembly. Under the proposed bill, every seminary will have to be approved by the local commissioner.
Earlier, the provincial government assured the Sindh chapter of the JUI-F to take the party and other religious scholars into confidence before presenting the bill in the provincial assembly.
The assurance came after the JUI-F held a protest last week outside the CM House, urging the government to review its decision and arrest the killers of Khalid Mehmood Soomro, a senior party leader who was shot dead in 2014.
“JUI-F is not against the registration of seminaries … this exercise has been going on for the past five years,” said Senator Maulana Attaur Rehman of JUI-F. The problem, according to him, is that the government intended to control Madrassas, which was unacceptable.
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The lawmaker said that office-bearers running seminaries had always cooperated with the government and they would continue to cooperate, but “we will not … give up control of Madrassas”.
According to him, the federal government had struck an agreement in 2010 with seminaries in which it was decided that Madrassas would be registered, but their curriculum would remain unchanged.
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“How can the provincial or federal government take such steps without consulting the main stakeholders?” asked the lawmaker, who insisted that CM Murad Ali Shah should himself look into the matter.
Senator Rehman, the younger brother of JUI-F chief Maulana Fazlur Rehman, said the party had many options such as staging a protest outside the CM House in Karachi and mobilising public across the country. Fazl’s party currently operates hundreds of seminaries in Karachi and Sindh’s rural areas.
Published in The Express Tribune, September 4th, 2016.