Study of Pakistan’s Various Reform Policies Regarding Islamic Seminaries

Abstract

Pakistan is an Islamic country based on Islamic ideology where society has an emotional attachment with religion, hence an expanded network of Dini Madaris [ traditional institutions of Islamic learning] is prevailing in urban as well as in rural areas of the country; where the teaching- learning process remains continue in a traditional way. While on other hand, at the same time, modern education system is followed by government and non - government run institutions. These two different systems with different ideologies and pedagogical techniques have produced two differnt social classes with differnt world views about the way pakistan should be managed. This situtation of education system is worrying. In an Islamic welfare state, ideally speaking, serious efforts are required to be done in order to eliminate the gulf between the two systems entirely havinh antagonistic approaches. In such perspective, this paper is aimed to study the efforts and practical steps, taken for the reforms and development of Dini Madaris by various governments of Pakistan as per their policies.