Multan houses maximum 2,005 seminaries, followed by 1,920 in Gujranwala, 1,912 in Dera Ghazi Khan, 1,911 in Bahawalpur, 1,336 in Sargodha, 1,294 in Faisalabad, 1,257 in Rawalpindi, 919 in Sahiwal, 644 in Lahore and 600 seminaries are in Shiekhupura.

Maximum number of Deobandi seminaries (954) are found in Bahawalpur, whereas 952 seminaries belonging to Brailvis, are set up in Gujranwala, Ahl-e-Hadith have maximum 180 seminaries in Gujranwala while Ahl-e-Tashi's maximum 50 seminaries are located in Dera Ghazi Khan.

State Minister for Information and Broadcasting Marriyum Aurangzeb told the House that since February, last year as many as 1,068 complaints have been received by Pakistan Electronic Media Regulatory Authority (Pemra) against various TV channels for spreading sectarian violence and incitement in Pakistan.

She said that PEMRA had issued, so far, 91 licences to satellite TV channels. However, 22 applications were received for issuance of licences, but pursuant to the restrain and then a stay order by Lahore High Court, these were not processed.

Minister for States and Frontier Regions Abdul Qadir Baloch informed the House that the Marble City of Mohmand Agency with a capacity to accommodate about 290 industrial units is in advance stage of completion and is being included in CPEC. But, he could not provide accurate answers to Azam Swati and Nauman Khattak, who had asked if a single unit has been occupied so far and what the status is for making the city a part of CPEC and how, respectively.

He sought fresh questions. However, he conceded that there are serious problems of land record and data, which needed to be streamlined.

The minister also wanted fresh question from PTIs Mohsin Aziz and Azam Musakhail of PkMAP, who asked what facilitation has been done, so far, by the Fata Investment Facilitation Authority for setting up small and medium enterprises in the tribal region. He also had no idea how people of Fata could benefit from ZTBL.