Police raided a madrassa in the Afghanistan Basti area of Sohrab Goth, Karachi on Monday and rescued 45 students chained in the basement, police said.
Officers also arrested two clerics at the Madrassa Zakarya in Karachi’s central Sohrab Goth area but the head of the seminary managed to escape, police official Mukhtiar Khaskheli told AFP.
“At least 18 of those chained are aged 20 while the rest are older,” Khaskheli said.
“The madrassa officials claim that they had chained those students because they were drug addicts and they wanted to rehabilitate them and make them better Muslims,” the police official said.
Khaskheli said a full scale investigation had been started which would also inquire about any possible links with militants.
“Every possibility including its involvement in militancy will be investigated upon,” said Sharfuddin Memon, a spokesman for the home department of Sindh.
Memon said the incident highlighted the brutality in society.
“It showed the brutalised aspect of our society and our police’s effort was aimed at eradicating that element,” he said.
Gudap Superintendent of Police (SP) Rao Nawaz said most of the imprisoned students were brought in from Peshawar.
A private TV channel showed footage of the madrassa and the chained students, who danced in jubilation as police started to release them.
The students said that they were tortured during the imprisonment.
If we want to eliminate religiouse extremism , this kind of actions are need of hour. police of all provinces must carry out the raids in their areas. Espacially in D G Khan, where numbers of Madrisasare increasing rapidly.
I very much appreciated for this kind of operation. Good job.
superb. such kind of operations can save many ,many lives of our innocent kids.
you all do not know the reality it is all the conspiracy to degrade our religion.it is the center of cure of kids using drugs, but our corrupt media which is the agent of india and west is showing it to them that in madrasas such education is given.
everything in the world is not a conspiracy, haseeb sahib. And in any case, is this the way to cure anyone of anything, by shacking them and keeping them prisoner? There are times when people have other things to do in life than spend every minute hatching conspiracies against the wonderful Islamic Republic of Pakistan. Open your eyes and realise that we have faults of our own which includes the sad fact that our beautiful religion has been hijacked by mad men. It is not the religion that is at fault but people who allow it to happen by blaming the West or India or anyone else but the actual persons involved
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