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| Pak to take stern action against madrassas involved in militancy | | | ISLAMABAD, JULY 12
Taking a stern view of involvement of madrassas in illegal activities, Pakistan Prime Minister Shaukat Aziz has warned that attempts to use them to promote militancy and extremism would not be tolerated.
Briefing reporters on the Lal Masjid operation, he said seminaries functioning according to law need not worry but those found involved in activities incompatible with law or promoting militancy would be dealt with according to the law of the land.
Giving the example of the action taken against militants of Lal Masjid and Jamia Hafsa, the prime minister said yesterday that law will take course if the government finds any other madrassa involved in the projection of such militancy.
He said that the issue of militancy in Lal Masjid had been brewing for quite some time and the government had credible information about the presence of a "certain category of people" inside the mosque-madressah complex who were not students.
Pakistani troops had on Tuesday stormed the mosque complex to flush out holed up militants.
Blaming the people inside Jamia Hafsa for triggering the action, he said they were interfering in normal civic life and challenging the writ of the government.
The Prime Minister said extremism in Jamia Hafsa damaged the country and brought a bad name for the religion Islam.
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