Via the BBC: Madrassa foreigners ‘must leave’

Pakistani President Pervez Musharraf says all foreign students at madrassas, or religious schools, some 1,400 pupils, must leave the country.

“Any [foreigners] in the madrassas - even dual nationality holders - will leave Pakistan,” Gen Musharraf said.

This is the latest in a series of measures the president has announced in a renewed clampdown on extremism.

Interesting. Of course, it is the kind of thing one can only do in an authoritarian government, and they will be able to go elsewhere.

It is something, although exactly how much of a something remains to be seen.

The institutionalization of free, liberal, public education would be an even better move.