02 Jan 2006

Pakistani Madrasas Defy Musharraf
Institute For Topical Studies, Chennai, India
Supplied note: "The latest paper of the Institute For Topical Studies, A-2/3, Bharathi Dasan Colony, K.K.Nagar, Chennai---600078, India, on the above subject is now available at the web site of the South Asia Analysis Group (SAAG), New Delhi, at [the URL below] - br."
Extract: "The Pakistani madrasas have once again defied President General Pervez Musharraf and refused to carry out the orders issued by him after the London explosions of July 7, 2005, asking them to expel all foreign students except Afghans by midnight on December 31, 2005, and to stop admitting any more foreign students, except Afghans. 2. They have been supported in their defiance by Al Qaeda, the International Islamic Front (IIF), the fundamentalist religious parties constituting the Muttahida Majlis-e-Amal (MMA) and the Government of the North-West Frontier Province (NWFP), which is constituted by the MMA - b. raman."
[The writer is Additional Secretary (retd), Cabinet Secretariat, Govt. of India, and, presently, Director, Institute For Topical Studies, Chennai - ed.]
URL http://www.saag.org/papers17/paper1659.html
Internet Archive (www.archive.org) [the paper was not archived at the time of this abstract. However, in a few weeks time it will be available at web.archive.org/web/*/www.saag.org]
Link reported by: B. Raman (corde--at--vsnl.com)
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