LAHORE, May 24: Jamaat-e-Islami has demanded that at least four per cent of the GDP in the budget should be allocated for Education sector, new educational complexes and facilities should be provided in under developed and far off areas, salaries and perks of the teachers should be raised, scholarships should be given to poor and deserving students and educational fees should be reduced.

These demands were made in the resolution passed by JI shoora which met at Mansoorah with Qazi Hussain Ahmad in the chair. The resolution expressed concerns over increasing foreign pressure on the education system, falling rate of literacy and educational standards and facilities, and observed that Gen Musharraf unleashed a reign of devastation in the education system by enforcing American agenda of enlightened moderation through removing ideological concepts from the syllabi and replacing them with foreign concepts of immorality and waywardness.

It also demanded that all material comprising Quran and Sunnah which was removed from the syllabi on American dictation must be restored while recent insertions should be excluded to align the education system with our ideology. Official status given to foreign NGOs in education ministry should be abolished and curriculum wing of the ministry should be run under the Education Act of 1976. Anti curricular activities in the universities like banning of book fairs should be stopped while activities like music concerts and music classes should be banned. The code of conduct of the students unions should be formulated with consultation of educationists, teachers and students, and Urdu should be made and enforced as official language.


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