June 27, 2002	Thursday	Rabi-us-Sani 15, 1423

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ISLAMABAD, June 26: An umbrella organization of different madaris on Wednesday rejected the government’s (proposed) “madaris education ordinance” and announced to resist its enforcement tooth and nail.

The government, it may be mentioned, has made public a draft ordinance, requiring all the religious schools in the country to get registered with the federal and provincial religious madaris boards within six months of the promulgation of the ordinance.

The Coordination Committee of the religious institutions organisation, which met here at a local hotel, decided to observe Friday (June 28) as a nationwide protest day against the proposed ordinance.

Later, speaking at a joint news conference, Maulana Hanif Jallendhri and Maulana Abdul Malik, chief of Jamiat Ittehadul Ulema, said that almost 70 per cent of the religious institutions in the country were already registered under the 1860 Societies Act and more would be ready to do so.