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| ITMD refuses to expel foreign students |
| 2005-12-25 |
| The Ittehadul Tanzeemat-e-Madaris-e-Deenia (ITMD) refuses to follow a final reminder sent to seminaries across the country to expel their foreign students from the country by December 31. âWe have told the government that we will neither expel foreign students nor hand them over to the government,â ITMD Secretary General Dr Mufti Sarfraz Naeemi told Daily Times. Wafaqul Madaris Secretary General Maulana Hanif Jalandhari and Jamia Ashrafia Lahore Vice Principal Hafiz Abdur Rehman Ashrafi confirmed that officials of the Interior Ministry visited or called them and told that the government would take stern action against seminaries which did not send foreign students back to their countries by December 31. Naeemi said that ITMD President Maulana Saleemullah had also told him that the government sent officials to big seminaries in Karachi asking them to expel their foreign students. He said that the ITMD would resist the governmentâs ârather foolishâ move against foreign students, and further strategy would be decided in an ITMD meeting probably on December 28. Jalandhari said that the governmentâs move would tarnish Pakistanâs reputation amongst Muslim states. |
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