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Pakistan schools refuse to expel pupils

Pakistan's religious schools refuse to meet the president's 31 December deadline to expel foreign students.

The governing body of 12,000 madrassas said the order was "illegal, discriminatory and un-Islamic".

President Pervez Musharraf ordered the expulsion in July after at least one of the London suicide bombers was shown to have visited a Pakistani madrassa.

The government said on Wednesday it was determined to pursue the expulsions.

It said in September it had resolved the dispute with the schools.

However, on Wednesday Hanif Jallandari, a central leader of the seminaries' governing body, the Ittehad-e-Tanzeemaul Madaris, said: "We do not adhere to President Musharraf's deadline. It is illegal, discriminatory and un-Islamic.

"The [foreign students] have legal documents. None of them is wanted in any criminal or terrorist act. So why should they leave?"

Posted by: SoulRiser
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Posted in: News on December 29, 2005 @ 12:00 AM

Tags: School

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