Raids at madrissahs are being made on the behest of the western powers:Sirajul Haq

Lahore: Ameer, Jamaat e Islami, Pakistan, Sirajul Haq, has said that the government was not providing any funds to the madrissahs, so on what moral ground it was demanding the audit of their accounts.

Addressing the staff and students of the Gulshan e Umar campus of the Jamia Usmania, Charat road, Pabbi, on Monday, he said that nearly three million students were getting education at the madrissahs but the government had no budget for them. On the other hand, after the 21^st amendment, the madrissahs were being especially targeted.

JI provincial chief Prof. Muhammad Ibrahim Khan, the head of the Jamia Usmania, mufti Ghulamur Rahman, and other local leaders were also present.

Sirajul Haq said that maligning Islam and religion was a part of the US and Europe war and raids of madrissahs were being made at the behest of the western powers and to advance their agenda.

He said that those passing out from the madrissahs were far more talented than the graduates of the leading universities.

“ It is a great misfortune that we have not been able to give a uniform syllabi to the new generation and different syllabi have caused a split among the people”, he said.

He said there was dire need to abolish the class based educational system in the country and introduce a uniform education system and syllabi. At present, he said, thousands of educational institutions did not have boundary walls, chalks and local teachers, while there were a few whose examination papers were prepared at Oxford.

He said there was division among the madrissahs due to different examination boards which was also the greatest hurdle in the Islamic system. He said the existence of different religious organizations on the basis of sects and schools of thought was the main cause of their weakness and the enemy was benefiting from that.

He said he had requested the Grand Mufti of Pakistan, Mufti Taqi Usmani, to make especial efforts to unite different Islamic parties on the basis of their common grounds. He said, all the Islamic religious parties were unanimous on the enforcement of the Islamic system and the Islamic provisions of the constitution.

He said that the Islamic system could not be enforced as long as the religious forces did not come to power. However, he said, that for coming into power, the religious parties would have to prove their competence for that.

He said there was much longing for Islamic knowledge and the Islamic system among the masses, and the religious parties would have to jointly work for the supremacy of Deen.

Meanwhile,Secretary General, Jamaat e Islami, Liaqat Baloch , has convened a meeting of the Planning and Implementation Committee for the  Tahafuz e Namoos e Risalat, at Mansoora on March 4.

The committee had been set up at the APC on the issue of Tahafuz e Namoos e Risalat, held at Mansoora a few days ago.

The committee members include Federal Railways Minister Khwaja Saad Rafiq, Hafiz Abdur Rahman Makki, Hafiz Zubair Ahmed Zaheer, Maulana Ameer Hamza, Pir Mehfuz Mashhadi, Qari Zawar Bahadur, Maulana Abdur Rauf Farooqi, Maulana Zahid Mehmud Qasmi and Mian Mehmud ur Rashid