Islamabad: In Pakistan, there is also a dispute between the government and the clergy over madrassas. Pakistani clerics have made it clear to the government that their madrassas will be free from government influence and will not become part of government ministries. In a way, he directly challenged the government. This is in stark contrast to the clergy’s position in 2019. That’s because various traditional religious school boards agreed to hand over some control to the federal Department of Education in 2019.
But now, Ittehad Tanzimat-e-Madaris, a Pakistani organization representing madrassas run by clerics from different sects of Islam, announced after a meeting on Tuesday that the move is to shield madrassas from government influence. A joint delegation of clerics met JUI-F chief Maulana Fazlur Rehman at his residence in Islamabad and supported him in the madrasa registration bill controversy position in.
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JUI-F leaders are pressuring the government to issue a gazette notification on the Societies Registration (Amendment) Bill, 2024. The aim was to revoke the 2019 agreement so that the district administration would gain the right to register religious schools. According to information published by leading British newspaper Dawn from here, the joint delegation of clerics included madrasas committees belonging to Barelvi, Deobandi, Shia and Alhadis ideologies, while the fifth The board is part of a religious school controlled by Jamaat-e-Islami. .
Mufti Taqi Usmani said in a statement issued after the meeting that the committee’s collective decision to accept administrative control from the Ministry of Education in 2019 was made under pressure because they believed at the time that the committee Ministry is better served by being under the control of the Ministry of Education than by anyone else. Usmani said the madrasas would remain autonomous and would not fall under the jurisdiction of Pakistani authorities, as was the case in Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates and Egypt. (language)
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