Seminaries asked to avoid political activities.

ISLAMABAD -- The capital administration has advised seminaries to focus on their curricular activities and disallow their staff and students from participating in political protests.

Sources say senior officers of the capital administration have started visiting seminaries and holding meetings with their managements to persuade them to not participate in JUI-F's Azadi March.

'Officers have been visiting those seminaries which are expected to lend support to the JUI-F and participate in its march,' the capital administration officials told Dawn on Wednesday.

When contacted, Jamia Mohammadia administrator Maulana Zahoor Ahmed Alvi said Deputy Commissioner Hamza Shafqaat visited the seminary in F-6, adding that the DC asked the management to focus only on curricular activities and not on political activities.

Answering a question about participation of the seminary staff and students in the march, Maulana Alvi said it was early for him to say anything about...