Centre, provinces not serious in registration of seminaries: Jalandhari

NOWSHERA: Secretary General Wafaqul Madaris Pakistan Muhammad Qari Hanif Jalandhari on Saturday said that the federal and provincial governments were not serious in registration of religious institutions.

Speaking at the Role of Seminary and Stability in Pakistan conference at Darul Uloom Noorul Quran in Rashakai here, he said that the religious institutions were flourishing in the country despite negative propaganda against the same.

He alleged that the federal and provincial governments were not serious in registration of seminaries and instead blaming the seminaries for the delay. The government officials were visiting the seminaries and pressurising the administration in the name of collecting data, he added.

“But despite all this more and more students are enrolling in seminaries,” Qari Hanif Jalandhari maintained.

He asked for government recognition of seminary education, saying the degrees issued by the seminaries were not considered for the government jobs and institutions.

He also came down hard on the Foreign Office for what he argued silence and abstaining from voting in the Security Council over the bloodshed in Syria. “It is a negligence that the country abstained from voting over the gruesome violation of human rights in Syria,” he added.