NA to approve Quranic education bill in next session

ISLAMABAD: The government will waste no time making Quranic education in Arabic language compulsory at the primary level and will start teaching the Holy Quran with Urdu translation from VI to XII class once the National Assembly approves the bill.

The Senate has passed the bill for making the Quranic education compulsory and now it has been placed in the National Assembly which will approve it in the next session, Federal Minister for Religious Affairs and Inter-Faith Harmony Sardar Muhammad Yousaf told The News.

Implementation of Quranic education in all public and private sector schools across the country will be ensured as the provincial governments are very much on board and have given their nod to the contents of the bill.

The minister vowed to enforce the imparting of Quranic education even in the main private school chains so that no student in Pakistani schools could be deprived of the dividends of the Holy Quran.

To a question, he admired the KP government for imparting the Quranic education in schools saying it was basically the proposal of the Ministry of Religious Affairs which was shared with the Ministry of Education. 

However, in the next breath, the minister went on to say that KP had done a good job and his ministry will write down a letter congratulating the KP government to this effect. 

Imparting Quranic education from class 1 to intermediate level will help generate true Muslims with no hatred making the society balanced and free of all kinds of extremism.

The minister said the government will initiate a drive asking the managements of all mosques to ensure separate sitting arrangements for women so that they could attend Jumma prayers there.

“We will start this move from the 87 mosques of Auqaf department in Islamabad enabling women to take part in Jumma congregations and for them every kind of facility will also be ensured in separate arrangements,” the minister said.