Schools, colleges are teaching extremism across nation: Fawad Chaudhry

ISLAMABAD (Dunya News) – Minister of Information and Broadcasting Fawad Chaudhry, on Thursday said that the teaching institutes including schools and colleges are promulgating extremism across nation.

While addressing a ceremony in Islamabad, he said that the problem does not lie in Islamic teachings, it lies in their interpreters. The reason behind production of extremism is not madrassa, it is the schools and colleges wide spread in country which are producing extreme mindsets, he added.

Moreover, he said during 1980s and 90s, due to recruitment of extreme minded people, the youth became extremists. Fawad added that Islam is the religion that promotes peace and balance in one’s life. The claims of Fatwas are very common he further said. He also highlighted that the same level of extremism will be kept on generating until the law and order is not abided. 

Fawad Chaudhry point out that Pakistan Army is the sixth biggest power around the world. The country does not hold threats from India, US and Europe but from its own people.