Law to regulate Islamic religious schools difficult to implemen

Sunday, June 30, 2002

RAWALPINDI, Pakistan -- President Pervez Musharraf's military government is expected to implement a law within the next few days to regulate the country's controversial Islamic religious schools, whose increasingly militant, anti-Western teachings have influenced a generation of young men.

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