Federal Minister for Education and Professional Training Muhammad Baligh-ur-Rehman on Thursday informed the National Assembly that Quranic education (Nazra) will be taught to Muslim students in all the public and private educational institutions in federal capital.
Responding to a question during question hour, he said that National Assembly had passed a bill to provide compulsory teaching of the Holy Quran to Muslim students in all educational institutions.
Baligh-ur-Rehman said it was not only our religious but also constitutional duty to make teaching of Holy Quran and Islamiyat compulsory. He said it was a consensus document and expressed the confidence that other provinces would also follow it.
Under the bill, he said, students from Grade-I (one) to Grade-V (five) would be taught Nazra Quran while simple translation of Quran would be taught to the students from Grade-VI to intermediate.
