93 madrasas in Sindh province of Pakistan have links with terrorist outfits

Islamabad: As many as 93 madrassas in Sindh have solid links with terrorist or banned outfits and intelligence agencies are having credible information about activities taking place there. A special meeting held at the Chief Minister House in Karachi to review the law and order in the province was appraised about these numbers yesterday, a report in The Express Tribune said today.

Chief Minister Murad Ali Shah presided over the meeting, which was also attended by the Rangers director-general Major General Bilal Akbar and provincial heads of intelligence agencies among other members of civilian leadership, the newspaper report said. The chief minister has directed the police and the Rangers to begin an operation against madrassas harbouring terrorists. “This kind of attitude will not be accepted,” said Shah.

“We will not allow anybody to shed blood of innocent people in the name of religion or using a sacred place,This operation will also be targeted and intelligence-based”, the report said adding that the operation will be started just after Chehlum. The Chief Minister has directed to the home department to put the 93 madrassas involved in dubious activities on the watch list and maintain a record of their day-to-day activities, the report added. (UNI)