Sunday, September 4 2005 15:22 Hrs (IST) - World Time -

New Delhi: Alleging that the Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI) was encouraging 'extremism' in madrassas along the Indo-Nepal border, Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) today (Sept 4, 2005) demanded a legislation to regulate the functioning of such institutions.

"It is a matter of serious concern for the country that suspicious activities promoting extremism are going on in some of the madrassas in the border districts of India. There is also evidence of the direct involvement of ISI in these activities," BJP National Vice President Mukthar Abbas Naqvi said at the national executive of BJP Minority Morcha held in New Delhi.

"There is an urgent need to bring some legislation to regulate the suspicious activities of madrassas. While we are not against the madrassas committed towards producing excellence, the country will have to take purposeful action against those, who are not doing so," he pointed out.

Naqvi said madrassas in Pakistan were fast converting to breeding grounds of extremist activities with patronage from ISI. Even the Government there does not have any control on the madrasses.

"Instead of excellence the madrassas are increasingly producing extremism. The ISI is a super government there," he said.

The BJP Vice President also said some terrorist forces were misusing the names of Islam as a 'cloak to cover their evil design and actions'.

He said that there would be no respite from terrorist activities across the globe, until Pakistan dismantles ISI completely.