Reply #1: "All foreign students must leave Pakistan's religious schools"

[Pert_UK]

Not to Mods - this is the headline on the BBC website, but when you click the link to the story it becomes: "Madrassa foreigners 'must leave'", which is less intuitive.

"Pakistani President Pervez Musharraf says all foreign students at madrassas, or religious schools, some 1,400 pupils, must leave the country.

"Any in the madrassas - even dual nationality holders - will leave Pakistan," Gen Musharraf said.

This is the latest in a series of measures the president has announced in a renewed clampdown on extremism.

Madrassas have been in the spotlight after one of the London bombers was reported to have studied at one. "

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/south_asia/4728643.stm

I'm not sure how I feel about this.....I kinda reckon they're taking a sledgehammer to crack a nut, and undermining religious freedoms....

On the other hand, many of these schools are unregulated hotbeds of extremism.