Aamna Aamna 
This is a major event of recent times related to the debates on the new rules and regulations of the religious seminary that the government of Pakistan has presented the newly registered madrassa to the Jamiat Ulema-e-Islam-F (JUI-F). The action came after intense discussions and comes after the recent rejections of the Societies Registration (Amendment) Bill by President Asif Ali Zardari, who expressed certain discomfort about the first version of the legislation. The draft offers several options for registering the creation of new unions, and the possible supervision by the Ministry of Education or the local district administration indicates the government’s desire for a mutually satisfactory resolution with religious schools.
The legal experts of the government have held lengthy meetings with JUI-F Senator Kamran Murtaza to resolve the issue related to the seminary registration bill. Several registration mechanisms have been proposed to allow madrassas to register in multiple ways so that they can choose their administrative structures. The options include registration under the Ministry of Education, district commissioner offices, or Ministry of Interior showing that it has a sophisticated mechanism in place to address the concerns of the religious educational institutions.
The new draft is to be presented to Senator Kamran Murtaza who will brief JUI-F chief Maulana Fazlur Rehman about it while a session of JUI-F central council is to be convened to review the proposal. This development is specially significant for the reason that the ‘madrassa registration bill’ was one of the demands of JUI-F in exchange for the 26th Constitutional Amendment. The measure that the government was able to strike with an aim to drill deeper into the matter, reveals and underscores the highly political contentiousness of religious educational institutions in Pakistan.
