ISLAMABAD: Federal Minister for Religious Affairs Sardar Yusuf said that under the 18th amendment the transfer of Education Department to the provinces was a big blunder.
He said this while addressing a press conference following the end of annual examinations at the Federal Al Madaras at Jamia Mohammadia. He was accompanied by Maulana Hanif Jalundari, Maulana Zahoor Ahmad Alvi, and Maulana Abdul Qadus Mohammadi and other religious scholars.
He said that due to the transfer, the education system had turned into a victim of the racial system. He exhorted that all political parties should mull over seriously on the issue. He added that the government was striving hard to bring the religious seminaries into the mainstream and suggested that at the federal level there should be budgetary provision for the religious seminaries.
He said that under the 18th amendment the dream of an equal education system remained incomplete. He added that the four provinces had adopted education systems of their own.
Sardar Yusuf said that in the federal capital, an equal system had been devised after thorough consultations with the concerned authorities and the four provinces should support the federation to bring the education system again under the control of the federal government.
He said that for reforms in the religious seminaries, the advisor to the prime minister on national security and the Ministry of Education and Religious Affairs had sent recommendations to the government and demanded budgetary provision for the religious seminaries. He said that the government was striving for the recognition of degrees of students of the religious seminaries. He said that more than 73 thousand men and women learn the Holy Quran by heart every year.
Sardar Yusuf said that the government was endeavouring to redress the grievances of the religious seminaries.
