Madressah students must not be used by PDM, PM tells interior minister.

ISLAMABAD -- Prime Minister Imran Khan has Wednesday assigned Minister of Interior Sheikh Rasheed Ahmad with a task to ensure seminary pupil are refrained from joining any Pakistan Democratic Movement (PDM) protests, media reported.

The federal minister has been directed by the PM to sit with religious scholars and explain to them the government's priorities.

Reportedly, the Prime Minister has expressed indignation over gaining the political ends using religion as cover and has thus tasked Sheikh Rasheed Ahmad, who has been given the portfolio of federal minister for interior, to make sure students of religious seminaries are kept from joining political protests staged by PDM.

The government has thus, reportedly, decided to gain the confidence of religious clergy by sitting with them and expanding on the policies the government has designed.

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