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Forty-two new Islamic seminaries came up in Pakistan’s capital last year, a development the government hopes would promote President Pervez Musharraf’s advocacy of “enlightened moderation” in disseminating religious education.
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The US is providing funds to a voluntary agency working to improve and modernise teaching in Islamic seminaries that mostly impart only religious lessons.
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President Pervez Musharraf has ordered a halt to the mushrooming of madrassas and mosques in the Pakistani capital in what is being viewed as a move aimed at thwarting religious extremism and possible terrorist strikes.
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Religious seminaries, or madrassas, in Pakistan have seen the largest growth since the country’s independence to touch 27 times their 1947 total, according to an interior ministry report.
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In the world of Muslim seminaries in India, the Maulana Azad Islamic Awakening Centre in the capital is almost an oddity. The centre is fairly well maintained compared to other ‘madrassas’. But like any other madrassa, the Maulana Azad Centre for Islamic Awakening is caught between conflicting pressures to stick to tradition and embrace modernity.
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