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| July 22, 2005 | Friday | Jumadi-us-Sani 14, 1426 |
Crackdown on madressahs condemned
ISLAMABAD, July 21: The activists of Jamiat Tulba Arabiyya here on Thursday condemned the police crackdown on Madressah Hafsa, Lal Masjid, and manhandling of girl students and asked the Western countries to reconsider their policies vis-a-vis the Muslim world. Speaking at a press conference at the camp office of Rawalpindi-Islamabad Press Club here, Nazim-i-Ala Jamiat Tulba Arabiyya Hafiz Sajid Anwar condemned the law-enforcement agencies for beating the girl students of the madressah as though they were criminals.
“If policemen had to beat women then why did the government recruit women police,” he asked. He said the poor students were not involved in any terrorist activities but the rulers were doing all this to please their foreign masters for perpetuation of their rule.
He also condemned the NGOs for not taking notice of the police highhandedness of the madressah students. He alleged the NGOs for taking up only those cases that degraded the image of the country abroad but seldom took notice of those human rights violations which were committed on the dictations of the US and other western countries.
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