Appointment of imams
EXTREMISM and intolerance are straining the social fabric of societies. When a state fails to regulate its religious affairs and institutions, it is likely that radical elements within some of…
Unfolding madressah challenge
The state’s lukewarm efforts to take up the counter-extremism fight are compounding the madressah challenge. It neither realises the scale of the challenge, nor has any clue about the problematic…
View point: Putting the squeeze on seminaries
Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif had a productive meeting on Monday with representatives of the Ittehad-e-Tanzeemat-e-Madaris Pakistan (ITMP) to decide future course of action for the seminaries. Thus far these people…
