Madrasha teachers raise hold placards during a protest, in Bikaner.
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Children celebrating Diwali with sparklers at a Madarsa in Mirzapur.
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Bangladeshi volunteers prepare a meal for newly arrived Rohingya Muslims from Myanmar, at a madrasa in Shahparirdwip, Bangladesh.
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Students of a Madarsa celebrating Teacher's Day in Jodhpur.
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Muslim child reads the Quran at a madrasa in Bangalore, Karnataka.
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Madrasa teachers block the road during a protest to press for their demands in Kolkata.
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The latest from the BJP's saffron brigade: MP Sakshi Maharaj has now charged that madrasas across the country are imparting “education of terror” and “love jihad”.
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Children read the Quran during Ramzan at a madrasa in Hyderabad.
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A Muslim student from remote hilly area of Jammu yawns as he studies inside a madrasa.
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It's graduation day for an Afghan girl passing out from a Madrasa at the Mazharal Olom mosque in Ghazni province west of Kabul, Afghanistan.
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Its modest madrasa;
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Butt at Aminiyya madrassa where his Pashtoon teacher studied, Kashmere Gate, Delhi
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Pakistani children look through the window of a room after being rescued by police during a raid at an Islamic seminary on the outskirts of Karachi, Pakistan. Pakistani police disc...
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A Pakistani child weeps after being rescued by police during a raid at an Islamic seminary on the outskirts of Karachi, Pakistan. Pakistani police discovered drug addicts held in c...
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Pakistani children leave with their belongings after being rescued by police during a raid at an Islamic seminary on the outskirts of Karachi, Pakistan. Pakistani police discovered...
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Rescued Pakistanis sit in a police vehicle following a police raid at an Islamic seminary on the outskirts of Karachi, Pakistan. Pakistani police discovered drug addicts held in ch...
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Pakistani Ehssan Abduallah, 6, looks on while studying in a madrassa, or Islamic school, located next to the house of Mumtaz Qadri, the alleged killer of Punjab governor Salman Tas...
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Students of 'madrasas' form a human chain to block a road during a demonstration demanding facilities in their institutes in Kolkata.
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Pakistani children attend a daily class to learn how to read verses from the Muslim holy book at a poor neighborhood on the outskirts of Islamabad, Pakistan
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Pakistani children hold copies of the Quran during a daily class at a poor neighborhood on the outskirts of Islamabad, Pakistan
Both the 11-year-old and the 9-year-old victims are sisters who refused to go to the madrasa after they accused the teacher of touching them inappropriately
From April 1 next year, over 600 state-run Madrassas will be converted into upper primary, high and higher secondary schools with no change of status, pay, allowances and service conditions of the teaching and non-teaching staff.
According to reports, the victims, who are all minors, had their clothes torn off and their bicycles were vandalized by the group when the children went to a ground to play cricket after concluding their afternoon namaaz.
Addressing a press conference in Rawalpindi, Major General Asif Ghafoor said Pakistan had witnessed a surge in religious seminaries from 247 madrassas in 1947 to 2,861 in 1980.
Nusrat Jahan Rafi, an 18 year-old-student at a madrassa in Bangladesh was burnt to death by four burqa-clad persons days after she reported sexual harassment by the madrassa principal
A renowned US entrepreneur and civic leader, Frank Islam stressed that Madarsas spread religious education and said that the Islamic institutions should start speaking out against terrorism of all types.
It can be seen that children are soft targets for running any mission and at this point of time ISIS is a dangerous terror organisation, writes Waseem Rizvi in a letter to PM Modi.