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  • Aug 4th, 2005
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Pakistan Muslim League President and former Prime Minister Chaudhry Shujaat Hussain on Wednesday called on President General Pervez Musharraf at Camp Office Rawalpindi and discussed political situation and other important issues.

They particularly discussed the government's decision to deport all foreign students or those with dual nationalities studying in country's religious seminaries.

A government spokesman, while giving details of the meeting, said the government had decided to deport all madressah students (foreigners/dual nationality-holders) after taking into confidence the leadership and that no change would be made in this decision. Punjab Chief Minister Chaudhry Pervaiz Elahi was also present in the meeting.

President Musharraf had declared recently that all foreigner madressah students would be deported. But Chaudhry Shujaat differed with the President and said that expelling foreign students was no solution to the problem of extremism.

Copyright Associated Press of Pakistan, 2005


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