Call for protests: ASWJ warns against curriculum change in G-B
The reaction came after the process of changing the curriculum entered its final stage.
GILGIT:
The Gilgit-Baltistan chapter of Ahle Sunnat Wal Jamat (ASWJ) issued a strong warning to the government on Tuesday against changing the existing curriculum, saying it would trigger unending protests in the country.
The reaction came after the process of changing the curriculum entered its final stage, as claimed by the ASWJ.
“We demand immediate withdrawal of the decision being made to change the existing curriculum,” said ASWJ leaders Abdullah Haidary, Attaullah Saqib and Himayatullah, while addressing a news conference in Gilgit.
The reaction came days after Interior Minister Rehman Malik announced in Gilgit that a notification regarding changes in curriculum would be issued soon. Malik was in Gilgit to end protests resumed by Shia leaders in the wake of the Kohistan bus tragedy that left 16 people dead last month.
“We condemn the Kohistan massacre but that doesn’t mean the government should make unilateral decisions against us under the garb of the tragedy,” they warned.
“If the changes in the curriculum on the demands of a particular sect are made, we will be forced to launch countrywide protests against it,” said Saqib, one of the ASWJ leaders in Gilgit.
Published in The Express Tribune, March 14th, 2012.
The Gilgit-Baltistan chapter of Ahle Sunnat Wal Jamat (ASWJ) issued a strong warning to the government on Tuesday against changing the existing curriculum, saying it would trigger unending protests in the country.
The reaction came after the process of changing the curriculum entered its final stage, as claimed by the ASWJ.
“We demand immediate withdrawal of the decision being made to change the existing curriculum,” said ASWJ leaders Abdullah Haidary, Attaullah Saqib and Himayatullah, while addressing a news conference in Gilgit.
The reaction came days after Interior Minister Rehman Malik announced in Gilgit that a notification regarding changes in curriculum would be issued soon. Malik was in Gilgit to end protests resumed by Shia leaders in the wake of the Kohistan bus tragedy that left 16 people dead last month.
“We condemn the Kohistan massacre but that doesn’t mean the government should make unilateral decisions against us under the garb of the tragedy,” they warned.
“If the changes in the curriculum on the demands of a particular sect are made, we will be forced to launch countrywide protests against it,” said Saqib, one of the ASWJ leaders in Gilgit.
Published in The Express Tribune, March 14th, 2012.