Pakistan government is not willing to take action against Gulen Schools


Pakistan government is thinking about activity against a school-chain being purportedly keep running by Gulen Movement yet it might require some investment, abnormal state sources told The News.

Gulen Movement is driven by Fethullah Gulen, the US-based religious pioneer blamed for plotting fizzled military overthrow in Turkey a week ago.

As per sources in Foreign Office, the move may make time as a huge number of Pakistani understudies are selected in 21 tip top non-public schools the nation over and their profession could be influenced by an unexpected close down.

While tending to a press instructions in Islamabad on Friday, Turkish Ambassador in Pakistan Sadik Babur Girgin had encouraged Pakistan to "anticipate exercises of Gulen gathering".

Sources said the Turkish government had brought the matter up in abnormal state converses with Islamabad even before the late upset endeavor.

They included that it was difficult for Pakistan to shut down each of the 21 schools spread the nation over as they are a settled system taking into account countless.

However after the fizzled overthrow, the Turkish call for activity has picked up earnestness and quality and inferable from close ties between the two governments, Islamabad feels constrained to help Ankara on the issue.

"We will stretch out full collaboration to the administration of Turkey to address their worries in such manner," a representative for Pakistani Foreign office told The News.

He said that endeavors would be made to locate an agreeable answer for the issue as per the general inclination of the Turkish government.

In Pakistan, Gulen runs a system of around 21 schools and an intercultural discourse stage, notwithstanding having business stakes. His associations and organizations have been working in Pakistan for quite a long time.

As indicated by a Turkish Newspaper Daily Sabah, Gulen Movement-partnered schools crusade and mentally condition a huge number of understudies against the present, law based, Turkish administration.

The paper ran a story a couple days back notice that the ties between the two nations could get strained if Islamabad dawdled on the issue of activity against these first class schools.

It said the 21 schools in Pakistan were center point of intrigues and were delivering understudies mentally programmed and were prepared to ascend with the Gulen Movement.

The paper guaranteed there were many applications against PakTurk Schools documented by guardians in the Private Educational Institutions Regulatory Authority (PEIRA) and the Capital Administration and Development Division (CADD) in Islamabad however no move had been made so far perhaps because of "the solid impact of the Gulenists in Pakistan".

It included that PakTurk Schools had chosen to change their name to maintain a strategic distance from any legitimate activity or conceivable conclusion.


Whenever reached, Minister for CADD Dr Tariq Fazal Chauhdry said any choice with respect to the schools would be taken by the remote service.

"We have yet to get any guideline from the Ministry of Foreign Affairs or Ministry of Interior with respect to conclusion of these schools. We will sit tight for the guideline to move further on the issue," he said.

He recognized that a great many understudies were admitted to these schools saying it was impractical to close them down promptly.

However on its site PakTurk International Schools and Colleges guaranteed that it had no connection with Gulen Movement.

"We feel it basic to elucidate that the PakTurk International Schools and Colleges in Pakistan are a magnanimous and non-political try in the nation sorted out and built up for human advancement, bury alia, in the field of training for the advantage of all Pakistanis, particularly poor people, penniless and meriting segments of the general public," the illumination peruses.

"We are profoundly worried by claims made by a specific area in the online networking attempting to associate the PakTurk International Schools and Colleges in Pakistan with Fethullah Gülen or the political development attributed to him in the wake of the late sad and indefensible occasions in Turkey. "We do unequivocally elucidate that the PakTurk International Schools and Colleges in Pakistan have no association or association with any political individual or any development or association, whether political, religious or denominational, nor do we have a money related association with any development."

"We think of it as critical to underline that administration of the schools and universities is driven exclusively on helpful contemplations and would see with concern any sign to club the PakTurk International Schools and Colleges with any individual or development and, in such a case, maintain authority to summon suitable legitimate activity."

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