Pak asked to shut down Deobandi schools |
Pakistan needs to be serious about closing down 600 Deobandi madrassas in the country, an influential US lawmaker has said, underlining that there is a prevailing sentiment in the Congress and Trump administration that such schools are breeding ground for terrorists.Pakistan needs to crackdown on groups like the LeT, close down those campuses as well. Pakistan needs to understand that if they are not going to bring perpetrators of the terrorist attacks to justice, they should turn them over to The Hague so that they can be tried in international tribunals and justice can be served. A founding member of the Congressional Caucus on India and Indian-Americans, Royce said the Congress and the new Administration is focused on the concept of USD 500 billion in trade between India and the US. Hence the need for an effective bilateral trade agreement treaty with India. The US is delighted that among the Indian-American population in the United States, one half of them have post graduate degrees. India and the US, he said, should form their policies on the "core values of rule of law, democracy, freedom of expression and freedom of believe". India, he said, is now the ninth largest trading partner of the US. The counter-terrorism co-operation has also increased over the past several years and the defence ties has strengthened in the last one decade, he said.
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