03 January 2007
Forty-two new Islamic seminaries came up in Pakistan's capital last year, a development the government hopes would promote President Pervez... Read more
Topic: madrassas
03 April 2004
The US is providing funds to a voluntary agency working to improve and modernise teaching in Islamic seminaries that mostly... Read more
15 July 2003
President Pervez Musharraf has ordered a halt to the mushrooming of madrassas and mosques in the Pakistani capital in what... Read more
05 May 2003
Religious seminaries, or madrassas, in Pakistan have seen the largest growth since the country's independence to touch 27 times their... Read more
21 January 2003
In the world of Muslim seminaries in India, the Maulana Azad Islamic Awakening Centre in the capital is almost an... Read more