Qari Hanif Jhulandari, convenor of Wifaq-ul-Madaris Arabia on Friday, talking to Business Recorder on telephone from Islamabad, said they wanted peaceful settlement of the matter, but if the government authorities tried to impose their-own made formalities, they would not accept them.
He said the foreigners studying in seminaries had legal documents and valid visas and none of them was wanted in any terrorism case.
"We do not accept any discriminatory decision against religious seminaries," he said.
According to him, a majority of religious schools had vowed to resist the government's decision of expelling the foreign students.
Qari said that government would have to review its decision to expel the foreign students studying in religious seminaries because it is an unjust, immoral and illogical decision.
Hanif Jallandari, Co-ordination Secretary of Ittehad-e-Tanzeematul Madaris Deenia (ITMD), said they would not accept government's policy against foreign students and demanded to review the decision.
He said that around 700 out of a total of 1,400 foreign students, had left Pakistan after government's order, adding that seminaries were not enrolling any more foreign students. December 31 deadline was set for registration of religious schools with the government.