Lahore, August 4(ANI): An intelligence agency report has revealed that certain religious seminaries in Pakistan's Punjab were actively involved in fanning radicalism, and that there had been a visible increase in the activities of the Pakistan institutions in the past six weeks.
The seminaries included in the report were Madarassa Usman-o-Ali in Bahawalpur, Al-Noor Markaz Muridkey Goraya in Sialkot, Madrassa Daral uloom Khatijatul Qubra Lil Banat (Deoband) in Multan.
The report titled 'Madrassahs (seminaries) fanning radicalism' forwarded by the Punjab Home Department to the Punjab Police Inspector General and other senior police officers, has stressed on the need to check madrassas from fanning radicalism and sectarian polarisation.
The report also suggested measures to regulate the madrassas and thus curb their extremist activities
The record of seminaries' students and teachers can be entered into a Law Enforcement Agency (LEA) database and kept under strict surveillance, the report proposed.
The report also suggested improving the standard operating procedure (SOP) pertaining to the registration of madrassas so that unregistered seminaries may be shut down immediately, The Express Tribune reports.
The report also provided LEA technical representatives to oversee the construction of certain madrassas to assess their present and future usages.he report suggested that the matter be discussed further at Divisional Intelligence Committee to implement the appropriate mechanism to restrict the banned organisations from breaching the 1997 Anti-Terrorism Act. (ANI)
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