SHAFAQNA PAKISTAN (Shia News Agency)
NACTA which many people had given up as being dead as dodo has started showing signs of animation. The passage of the National Action Plan (NAP) has acted as a stimulant. The Apex Committees’ have meanwhile held meetings in all the provinces bringing the civilian and military leadership, various security and law enforcement agencies on one platform. Lists of terrorists and their financiers and sympathisers have been prepared for action under separate heads.
Military administrations as well as elected governments have in the past hobnobbed with the extremist networks to gain political mileage. The tendency helped in the spread of extremism. There is a danger that political exigencies may again stand in the way of the implementation of the NAP. The fear of a backlash from the religious organisations has restrained the present government from undertaking the madrassah reforms. Ch Nisar maintained that 90 per cent seminaries are problem-free which implied that 10 per cent, numbering thousands of madaris, caused problems. Days after the APS attack Punjab Home Minister claimed his government had completed the mapping of registered and unregistered madaris in the province and may initiate action against 10 per cent of them. No step has yet been taken in the direction. Minister of State Balighur Rehman told the media that the government had decided to formulate a curriculum for the madaris. This promise too remained unfulfilled. Determination was expressed to stop the inflow of funds to the seminaries from the extremist circles in the Gulf. The Senate was told last week that only 23 madaris receive foreign funding. It was surprising that none of those belonged to Punjab where seminaries have produced a number of terrorist leaders and foot soldiers.
A media report tells of the Gujrat district intelligence committee having recommended action against a PML-N legislator under ATA for his alleged links with some banned outfits. A group of influential people are reportedly pressurising the administration to get his name removed from the list. Will political exigencies override national interests in this case too?
pakistan.shafaqna.com
