Senior K-P minister Sirajul Haq said illiteracy is one of the key issues of K-P. PHOTO: INP
Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa (K-P) finance minister on Saturday maintained some educational institutions are involved in imparting foreign education with the sole aim of promoting anti-Islamic and anti-Pakistan culture to their students.
Sirajul Haq was speaking to participants at the Parents Day ceremony of a private school. Though the Jamaat-e-Islami lawmaker did not name any institution, he accused private schools and colleges of training children to sing, dance and elope with girls.
Haq said as illiteracy is one of the key issues of K-P, the government is encouraging opening of private educational institutions in rural areas that adhere to Islamic culture. He claimed anti-Pakistan forces have the country on their “hit-list” and are “hell-bent on destroying the country’s faith, religion, honour and culture through the education system.”
Published in The Express Tribune, January 12th, 2014.
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"(K-P) finance minister on Saturday maintained some educational institutions are involved in imparting foreign education with the sole aim of promoting anti-Islamic and anti-Pakistan culture to their students." --- Study of Physics, chemistry, Biology, Engineering are all foreign education I understand and as per the Honorable finance minister of KP these foreign education is anti Islam and anti Pakistani culture ( so it should be stopped or banned. sir am i right ?) sir as finance Minister will you stop the salaries of teachers imparting the said education or order closure of such schools/ colleges. I don't understand why Malala was against the militants when they were simply following the finance Minister and subscribing his views.
"he accused private schools and colleges of training children to sing, dance and elope with girls' ----- So singing and dancing is against Islam and against Pakistani culture. sir many many and many people subscribing to your views and singing and dancing to be prohibited . ( sir, may i request you to please clarify if smiling is permitted)
Knowledge and education shouldn't be confines in religions. Some religious parties don't want to make the society develop and advance. they need ignorant uneducated people and backward societies to Rules them and make them their earning sources on the name of Religious Education. We need character building according to quranic values but allow the young generation to get every knowledge through which the not only earn their requirement but move forward their society equal it to develop modern and advance Societies
pathetic reporting by ET, once again!.... spin given to this guy's words and made it into a news-heading, Yellow journalism at its best!
Curious no mention of the scores of schools destroyed by the TTP types, but of course K-P finance minister does not consider "Our Brothers" activities any threat to "education"!
Lolz ... Zia-ul-Haq's Pakistan is under threat , thats whats irking them. They want to teach the children that a mass murderer of 50,000 Pakistanis is a martyr !
Narrow mindedness is more dangerous than drones.