Clerics resist Musharraf's war on madrassas By Massoud Ansari in Karachi (Filed: 05/09/2004) Islamic clerics in Pakistan have launched a campaign of resistance against a government crackdown on religious schools. They are furious that President Pervez Musharraf is attempting to staunch the flow of "terrorist recruits" by regulating the schools, known as madrassas. There are up to 20,000 such schools in Pakistan and until now the state has had no control over them. The government is now insisting that they should be registered and teach secular subjects. The Farooqia mosque in Karachi, which runs an extremist Sunni seminary, has hosted...