There is a slight glitch here. Where is all the extra-funding going to come from?
It is all very well saying do this and that (and I agree that these madrassahs should be reformed or replaced by ‘proper’ schools) but where is the money? Where are the teachers?
And as for syllabus I believe Javed Ashraf Qazi the former education minister had revised the whole primary and secondary school curriculum incl. madrassahs on orders of Mush. So why do we still have this problem?
Do you even realise that our export-import deficit for the first 6 months of the current fiscal year is $9+ billion dollars!!
In such difficult times when our government is cash-strapped and there is global recession who is going to help us?
And burqa contrary to what you may think of him, this is Imran Khan in 2005 and I think his points are still valid now
“There are almost a million madrassa students in Pakistan. Are they all terrorists? Of course not. And why did the madrassas not produce any militants before the Afghan jihad when they have existed in the subcontinent for centuries? The state school structure in Pakistan is in a mess. Madrassas are the only means through which poor families can educate their children. In my constituency in Mianwali, 70 per cent of the state schools are closed, mainly because there are no teachers. What are the people supposed to do there if they do not send their children to the charity-run religious schools? Certainly some madrassas do preach hate against other sects, and they should have been closed a long time ago, And there needs to be modernisation of the syllabus of Pakistan’s entire education system, madrassas included. Unfortunately, General Musharraf’s hands are tied. He is seen as a stooge of the anti-Islamic Americans. He lacks the moral authority to reform the madrassas or take on the sectarian militants. Sadly, he is more likely to exacerbate both militancy in our society and anti-American feelings.”
Imran Khan: We must address the root causes of this terror - Commentators, Opinion - The Independent