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India-Pakistan
Interior minister wants to rid Islamabad of illegal seminaries
2015-12-19
[DAWN] Interior Minister Chaudhry Nisar Ali Khan
...Currently the Interior Minister of Pakistain. He is the senior leader of the Pak Moslem League (N) and a close aide to Nawaz Uncle Fester Sharif. He is noted for his vocal anti-American railing in the National Assembly. However (comma) Khan told the U.S. ambassador that he was in fact pro-American but he and the PML-N would have to be critical of US actions in order to remain publicly credible. Khan cited his wife and children's US citizenship as proof, which means he's lying to one side or the other and probably both. He wears a wig, but you probably guessed that. since hair doesn't grow naturally in that shape or texture...
wants to rid the capital city of illegal madressahs and their students. But for that, he needs across-the-board political support which he sought on the floor of the National Assembly on Friday.

Sharing the concerns of some of his fellow politicians about madressahs which have been unlawfully constructed on government land, the minister said, "The problem is not as simple as it looks from outside because there are 25,000 madressah students in the city." He said it wasn't the present government which allowed the extensive use of greenbelts for the construction of seminaries.

Chaudhry Nisar said it was not possible for the government to confront all the illegal madressahs through the police. "We have already seen the result of the use of force in the case of Lal Masjid
...literally the Red Mosque, located in Islamabad and frequented by all sorts of high govt officials. The proprietors, Ghazi Abdul Rasheed and Maulana Abdul Aziz Ghazi, unleashed their Islamic storm troopers on the city, shutting down whorehouses and beating people up who weren't devout enough. The Musharraf govt put an end to the nonsense by besieging the place. Abdul Aziz Ghazi was nabbed while he was trying to escape dressed up like a girl. BBC reported that the corpse count at 173, but other claims, usually hysterical, say there were up to 1000 titzup. Among their number was Abdul Rashid Ghazi. Everyone then said tut-tut and what a nice guy he had been...
where 100 students bit the dust in a military operation in 2007. Yes, there is a problem which needs to be tackled in a peaceful manner."

The minister said there were certain issues regarding these seminaries which he could not talk about publicly and would suggest an in-camera discussion. However,
facts are stubborn; statistics are more pliable...
he added, "Whatever this house will suggest, the government will follow that course of action."
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