84 seminaries in Balochistan run by Afghan clerics

PESHAWAR (Pajhwok): As many as 84 seminaries in Pakistan’s southwestern Balochistan province are being run by Afghan refugee clerics, says a caretaker minister.

About 8,500 students are enrolled there, according to the provincial information minister, who said: “These 84 madrasas will be handed over to the local ulema for running them as the government has no plan to close these seminaries.”

Jan Achakzai said this at a joint press conference with caretaker Home Minister Mir Zubair Ahmed Jamali and Agriculture Minister Sardar Asif Dummar in Quetta on Wednesday.

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