PESHAWAR: The JUI-F provincial chapter on Sunday formed different committees to look into the alleged raids on seminaries and mosques by the law-enforcement agencies and to prepare for the forthcoming local bodies and senate elections.

The committees were formed during a meeting of the party’s provincial shura chaired by its KP chief Maulana Gul Naseeb. It was attended by shura members, including Maulana Shujaul Mulk, Maulana Rafiullah Qasmi, Maulana Amanullah and others.

The participants expressed concern over the alleged harassment of teachers in seminaries, and decided to contact the administrations of the seminaries to devise a future line of action in this regard.

A committee comprising Maulana Rahat Hussain and Maulana Rafiullah Qasmi would prepare a report on government’s action against seminaries undertaken in the aftermath of the attack on the Army Public School in Peshawar on December 16.

Speaking on the occasion, Maulana Gul Naseeb said that if the government didn’t change its ‘discriminatory’ policy regarding the seminaries then the JUI-F would be compelled to take stiff decisions. He claimed that seminaries and ulema had been fighting the war of Pakistan’s survival.

Published in Dawn March 2nd , 2015

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