Amid the debate on Single National Curriculum, an initiative of the federal education ministry aimed at ending educational apartheid in the country through a uniform nationwide syllabus, the madrassa education has also come into the limelight. But the debate surrounding the education system in madrassas is filled with longstanding prejudices, mainly because of a lack […]
2.6KSharesThe year 2019 saw an increasing number of child abuse cases in the country, from the recent Mansehra rape case to the horrifying case of the Rawalpindi cleric who hung a child upside down and beat him. What this has shown is that child abuse is rampant in this country and needs to be dealt […]
4.3KSharesJazib Rehman Khan looks at rape and sexual abuse in the madrassas of Pakistan. He argues that we need to speak out against this heinous act and bring the perpetrators to justice. Yesterday, while on Twitter, I came across the dreadful news of a Manshera-based madrassa cleric, identified as Shamsuddin, who had raped a 10-year-old […]
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