The Ministry for Federal Education and Professional Training has started initiating necessary steps and measures to link religious seminaries with the ministry, as part of the government’s new campaign related to the registration of religious seminaries working across Pakistan.
Federal Minister for Education Shafqat Mehmood warned on Monday that the Government will soon close down unregistered madrassas across the country. While addressing reporters in a press conference on Monday, he said the government and Ittehad Tanzimat Madaris-e-Deeniya, a federation of the five Waqfs (seminary boards) have unanimously agreed to attach seminaries with the federal ministry of education, in order to improve the standard of education.