MULTAN: The Wafaqul Madaras Al-Arabia Pakistan executive committee has decided to launch a school system across the country.
Addressing a press conference here on Saturday, WMAP Secretary General Qari Hanif Jalandhri said that the Wafaq would also establish sub-offices in Punjab, Sindh, Balochistan, KPK, Azad Kashmir and Gilgit-Baltistan while an All Parties Conference would also be organised soon.
He said that after two days of hectic sessions of the executive committee held in Multan chaired by Sheikh Al Hadith Moulana Salimullah Khan, a strategy was made for the Wafaq. He said that the Holy Quran would be read outside seminaries across the country on November 16 for peace and stability of the country.
The seminaries students would read the Holy Quran in front of the seminaries whole day, he maintained. The seminaries services convention would be held at Islamabad Convention Centre where seminaries position holders would be awarded prizes on January 29.
Qari Hanif Jalandhri said that committees were made at the provincial level for resolution of problems being faced by the seminaries’ students. He said that the school system would introduce modern education and seminaries syllabus collectively. He said that the executive committee had decided to set up media centres at all provincial headquarters to counter the baseless propaganda against seminaries. The executive committee deeply discussed the challenges faced by the seminaries across the country and pledged for defending the freedom and autonomy of seminaries and no compromise would be accepted in this regard at any level.
Qari Hanif Jalandhri said that the executive committee demanded the government make result-oriented dialogue with the seminaries. The executive committee rejected the amendments in the Sindh Seminaries Registration Amendment Act, he said. The executive committee reached a consensus that no discriminatory law would be accepted at any level, he continued.
The executive committee strongly condemned the search operations and raids at seminaries, discriminatory policies against seminaries, harassment against seminaries administrations, data gathering and including names of seminaries in the 4th Schedule, he added.
The executive committee had decided to take the country’s political and religious leadership into confidence on holding an All Parties Conference soon to end negative propaganda against seminaries,he added. The seminaries future strategy would be chalked out in consultation with religious political parties at the proposed APC, he maintained. He said that the WMAP leadership vowed that seminaries would continue their volunteer cooperation with the national security institutions at all levels and any sort of external dictation or pressure would not be acceptable.
The executive committee had decided to organise courses and training for the seminaries teachers based on examination system and a committees had been formed in this regard, he informed.
Moulana Dr Abdur Razzaq Sikandar, Moulana Anwarul Haq, Moulana Mufti Rafi Usmani, Moulana Mufti Muhammad Naeem, Moulana Obaidullah Khalid, Moulana Imdadullah, Moulana Qari Abdur Rashid, Moulana Mufti Muhammad Khalid, Moulana Fazalur Rahim, Moulana Qazi Abdur Rashid, Moulana Zubair Ahmed Siddiqi, Moulana Irshad Ahmed, Moulana Mufti Muhammad Tayyab, Moulana Mufti Tahir Masood, Moulana Hussain Ahmed Madni, Moulana Muhammad Qasim, Moulana Islahuddin Haqqani, Moulana Muhammad Anwar, Moulana Ziaullah, Moulana Qari Mohibullah, Moulana Abdul Qaddus, Mufti Salahuddin, Moulana Faiz Muhammad, Moulana Mufti Matiullah, Moulana Abdul Manan, Moulana Pir Azizur Rehman Hazarvi, Moulana Saeed Yousaf and Moulana Qazi Nisar Ahmed were also present.