Says bill being bulldozed to appease IMF, FATF, US
Tariq Saeed Peshawar
Chief of Jamiat Ulema-e-Islam-F Maulana Fazlur Rehman on Monday warned the government that it should not play with the Madrasah registration bill any longer and politicize the issue aimed at creating division among the religious scholars of the country.
We know the agenda of the present government which is a product of thoroughly rigged polls and imposed upon the nation through the establishment. “We know very well what their agenda is to appease their foreign masters. In fact they want to control the religious seminaries on orders of the Financial Action Task Force,” the IMF, the US and the West”.
He said, “We don’t want to clash with the state but if they don’t desist from bulldozing the bill, we know how to respond to them”.
The JUI-F supremo was addressig a press conference here after the Conference on Madrassa Registration and Reforms held in Islamabad. The conference was attended by scholars and administrators of religious institutions from all schools of thought.
The Maulana accused the government of pitting Ulema against the Ulema and creating confusion among the teachers and the students of the seminaries under a well-planned conspiracy adding there was no division among the clergy and Ulema from all schools of thought were united over the bill and no one has any objection. He said the government wanted to politicize the seminary bill which was highly condemnable. Fazal said his party doesn’t want confrontation with the state, but registration of seminaries if made controversial they were well prepared to take their course and go to any extent.
