US study downplays Pakistan madrassa threat (AFP)

Posted under World on Wednesday, June 23rd, 2010 at 2:39 pm | Read the First Comment

Pakistani students gather in front of a madrassa in Lahore in 2009, after a suicide attack. Pakistan desperately needs more schools to curb extremism but madrassas -- the Islamic seminaries that have struck fear in the West -- are not the main problem, a US study said Wednesday.(AFP/File/Arif Ali)AFP – Pakistan desperately needs more schools to curb extremism but madrassas — the Islamic seminaries that have struck fear in the West — are not the main problem, a US study said Wednesday.


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