Interior Ministry has started Geo Mapping of seminaries (Madaris) throughout the country as per National Action Plan (NAP). After completion of Geo Mapping of seminaries, the ministry will be able to provide total figure of madaris and it is provincial responsibility to provide data of Madaris to federal government.
The Interior Ministry sources said there are 717 seminaries in Gilgit- Baltistan and Federally Administered Tribal Areas (FATA) in which 699 are registered.
The security institutions of all the provinces are implementing on National Action Plan (NAP) and providing positive results.
They said that under the NAP, 10177 people have been arrested on misuse of loudspeaker and 2345 people were apprehended on hate speech act adding that in Sindh 167 suspected and 72 unregistered madaris were closed under the said plan.
The number of seminaries in the country is over 31,000, adding that 147 Madaris in Punjab, six in Sindh, seven in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa and 30 in Balochistan are running on foreign funding.
The construction of model jail in Federal Capital would be completed in three years, adding that for this purpose, the land has been acquired and construction work would be started in the next three months.