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Imamdheri Islamic University: English, Arabic mediums
Imamdheri Islamic University: English, Arabic mediums to be used to educate students
Peshawar, June 23, 2008: English and Islamic
education would be imparted to students at the Islamic University to be
established at Imamdheri, the former headquarters of rebel cleric Maulana
Fazlullah.
Vice Chancellor-designate and Project Director of Imamdheri
Islamic University Dr Mohammad Farooq said this in an interview.
Dr Farooq, a noted scholar from Mardan, said that according to the
university's ordinance admissions would be open to both male and female students
and there would be no gender discrimination in this regard.
"I have
proposed to the provincial government that the university should impart both
modern and Islamic education to the students," Farooq said, adding that students
would be imparted education in both English and Arabic languages.
In the
modern education, he said, the students would be grounded in subjects of
English, political science and computer besides Islamic education.
He
further said that he had proposed the start of spoken English and Arabic courses
with a view to enabling the students of this region to take the future
challenges in their stride.
Talking about the admission policy, he said,
"In the first phase, male students from NWFP, PATA and FATA would be offered
admissions. And if we had resources we would enrol female students from these
area in the second phase."
He said besides Imamdheri Complex the
government would acquire more land for establishment of university. He said the
provincial government would take all stakeholders, including Swat Taliban, on
board before going ahead with the project.
The basic aim of the varsity,
he said, was to produce scholars and students of LLB and LLM to enable them to
compete and make room for them in a challenging world.
"Today, most
Islamic education is translated into English but the ground reality is that
religious students could not benefit from it because they don't have command of
English to learn and teach others."
Female education: Sources in the
provincial government said that it would not be easy for the provincial
government to start female education, as the militants had already made it clear
that girls schools in Swat and Dir districts of the province would not be
allowed despite signing peace agreements with the provincial government.
However, Dr Farooq said that he would recommend that admissions should also be
open to female students.
The government has earmarked only Rs 5 million
in the financial year 2008-09 for establishment of the proposed
university.
The government and Swat Taliban had inked a deal on May 21 in
which both agreed to turn Imamdheri seminary into an Islamic university. Daily Times
Your Comments
"as it is fact that swat has 35 hundered years back history of education and even ttoday it has population of 17 lakhs and great potential for international stsndard university to be made here but unfortunately sinc the emergense of swat into pakistan no government has given imortance to swat on any aspect.being switerzeland of pakistan govt must dovelepe it on every aspect because it deserves.swat university must include not only islamic education but also modern.i think that historic college should also be upgraded to university because it fulfils the requirments of a university."
Name: muhammad ilyas
Email: awanian_007@yahoo.com
City, Country: mingora swat
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| Education News | | Updated: 25 May, 2012 |
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