Rawalpindi, Pakistan: Pakistani President Pervez Musharraf says all foreign students at madrassas, or religious schools, some 1,400 pupils, must leave the country.
“Any (foreigners) in the madrassas — even dual nationality holders — will leave Pakistan,” General Musharraf said.
This is the latest in a series of measures the president has announced in a renewed clampdown on extremism.
Also, according to the piece, Musharraf “told journalists that action would be taken against any of the madrassas that did not register with the authorities.”
I applaud this move, but it could not happen here.
Also, a bit from Musharraf about Kashmir, a region claimed both by India and Pakistan:
Islamabad: Pakistan President Pervez Musharraf has said that there was a dire need to resolve the Kashmir issue, since it was “at the root” of global terrorism.
Renewing his call to resolve both the Palestine and Kashmir disputes, which, according to him, were at the “root of terrorism” affecting the entire world, Musharraf said: “If we don’t do this we will fail the region and the world.”
Don’t know if that means he’ll ban people from Kashmir from his madrassas, although 35% of Kashmir is administered by Pak.
And, according to the piece, Musharraf went on to blame the British for the recent bombings in London by offering a “safe haven [for] Islamic extremists.” Which sounds a lot like the Afghanistan of recent memory.
And I now wonder if Chirac put him up to that.
