different schools of thoughts -- Deobandi, Barelvi, Ahle-Hadith, Shia and Jamaat-e-Islami. An organisation, called the Ittehad-e-Tanzimat Madaris-e-Deeniya (ITMD), is a collation of all five wifaqs of madrassas.
However, boards’ leaders opposing the government’s moves say that they would not tolerate unnecessary interference in the affairs of madrassas.
have intentionally been foiling the efforts as they do not want to see a madrassa graduate in top public positions, such as judges and commissioners,” Naeem, who is also an executive committee member of Wifaqul Madaris Al-Arabia, a board of Deobandi madrassas, tells The News. It is not the first time that the madrassa boards have voiced opposition to such attempts of the governments, analysts say.
Mufti Muhammad Naeem, principal of Jamia Binoria International, one of the biggest madrassas in the city, says the government is not taking the madrassa boards’ bodies into confidence before announcing the affiliation of the madrassas with the board.
“The government claims to bring the madrassas into the mainstream, but, in fact, bureaucrats have intentionally been foiling the efforts as they do not want to see a madrassa graduate in top public positions, such as judges and commissioners,” Naeem, who is also an executive committee member of Wifaqul Madaris Al-Arabia, a board of Deobandi madrassas, tells The News. It is not the first time that the madrassa boards have voiced opposition to such attempts of the governments, analysts say.
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Mufti Muhammad Naeem, principal of Jamia Binoria International, one of the biggest madrassas in the city, says the government is not taking the madrassa boards’ bodies into confidence before announcing the affiliation of the madrassas with the board.
“The government claims to bring the madrassas into the mainstream, but, in fact, bureaucrats have intentionally been foiling the efforts as they do not want to see a madrassa graduate in top public positions, such as judges and commissioners,” Naeem, who is also an executive committee member of Wifaqul Madaris Al-Arabia, a board of Deobandi madrassas, tells The News. It is not the first time that the madrassa boards have voiced opposition to such attempts of the governments, analysts say.