Sunday, April 10, 2011

Pakistan's Controversial Religious Schools

The Pakistani government is trying once again to reform the country's religious schools, locally known as madrassas. 



Critics argue they fail to teach students a wider curriculum, and have become a nursery for future extremists. But those who run the schools, and the 
students themselves, strongly disagree.



Al Jazeera's Kamal Hyder reports from Peshawar.