Not a single objectionable item found in seminaries: Qazi Rasheed

ISLAMABAD: "Religious seminaries are not only the protectors of geographical borders but also of ideological ones," Deputy General Secretary of Wifaq-ul-Madaris said on Monday.

In a statement issued here, Qazi Abdul Rasheed, the Deputy General Secretary of Wifaq-ul-Madaris, claimed that security agencies have raided 527 religious seminaries across the Punjab province.

“Let alone explosives, not even a single objectionable item was recovered from the seminaries,” he claimed.

Abdul Rasheed termed a statement of Interior Minister Chaudhry Nisar as based on facts and urged the government to simplify seminary-registration by introducing a one-window process.

He blamed the government for carrying out the process of seminary registration at a sluggish pace.