ISLAMABAD: The Federal Minister for Training and Skilled Coaching Shafqat Mehmood on Tuesday stated that the invoice submitted within the Nationwide Meeting to make the Arabic language obligatory in Islamabad colleges will likely be despatched to the NA’s standing committee for evaluate earlier than passing it.
In line with a report by Geo.television, the minister clarified that Quranic teachings are already imparted throughout all Pakistan colleges, including that the choice to show classical Arabic versus typical Arabic in class had additionally been into consideration for a while.
Shafqat Mehmood added that the PTI-led authorities has no reservations towards educating Arabic as a language in colleges.
“We will submit a thoroughly-designed bill to the House in this regard,” the minister stated. “Most members of the National Assembly have voted in favour of sending the bill to the standing committee for review.”
Responding to the training minister’s remarks, Muttahida Majlis-e-Amal’s MNA Abdul Akbar Chitrali stated that languages hold evolving, so it will be higher if ministers don’t oppose the choice [to include Arabic in the curriculum].
“Instead of sending it to the standing committee for review, the bill should be passed with immediate effect,” he demanded.
