PESHAWAR, Sept 28: A 15-member delegation of Britain’s Royal College of Defence Studies visited a seminary here on Wednesday.

The delegation, headed by Air Vice-Marshal Chinall Steve, visited classrooms and the library of the Jamia Imdadul Uloom and asked questions about the curriculum and other activities which were carried out there.

British Foreign Secretary Jack Straw also paid a visit to this seminary last year.

Patron-in-chief of the Jamia, Maulana Hassan Jan, while briefing the delegation, said that the basic objective of seminaries was to teach the fundamentals of religion and moral values.

He said that Islam was a religion of peace and there was no room for extremism and terrorism in it.

He said that the West should find out the basic causes of terrorism instead of linking terrorism with Islam.