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182 madrassas shut after Peshawar school attack
Pakistani authorities have sealed 182 ‘madrassas’ since the deadly Peshawar school attack in 2014, in a countrywide crackdown on religious seminaries allegedly involved in extremism, according to a Monday report by Associated Press of Pakistan.
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It said the madarassas were closed in Punjab, Sindh and Khyber Pakhtunkhwa because of their involvement in promoting extremism and other suspicious activities.
The action was taken under the National Action Plan (NAP) that was put in place after militants stormed an army school in December 2014 killing at least 150 people, mostly schoolchildren.
As part of the strategy to choke terror financing, the State Bank of Pakistan has so far frozen Rs 1 billion in 126 accounts which have a link to banned militant groups.
Law-enforcement agencies have also recovered around Rs 251 million in cash. The government has put names of 8,195 people in the fourth schedule and 188 on the Exit Control List while movement of 2,052 hardcore militants has been restricted.
Cases have been registered against 1,026 people and 230 terror suspects arrested. 64 organisations have been banned in the country, while 74 has been declared unlawful by UN.
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