SUKKUR: Terming Ulema the only patriots in the country, Maulana Fazlur Rehman, chief of the Jamiat Ulema-i-Islam-F (JUI-F) has said that Madressah is a fort of Islam and a peaceful place.

Talking to reporters at the Jamia Ashrafia here on Tuesday, he said seminaries imparted a lesson of peace, tolerance, love, affection and the religion.

He said terrorists were anti-state and bereft of any religion and terrorism should be rooted out of the country.

He accused the secular forces of hatching conspiracies ‘for dollars’ and said only an Islamic system would make the country a better place to live.

Maulana Fazl said clerics were the first to step forward for protecting the country in times of crises and the seminaries would foil all conspiracies.

Published in Dawn, March 31st, 2016