Special Assistant to Prime Minister (SAPM) on Information and Broadcasting Dr Firdous Ashiq Awan on May 7 cleared that all religious seminaries across the country would be linked with the Ministry of Education, but they would continue to work independently, reports Daily Times. Briefing the media on the cabinet meeting, she said a wrong perception was made in the media that those seminaries would work under the Ministry of Education. She said the cabinet was briefed by Education Minister Shafqat Mahmood regarding the initiatives to bring 30,000 religious seminaries into national mainstream. She said the education minister informed the cabinet that a one window registration of those seminaries and monitoring of their funds were important for their mainstreaming. She said the Ministry of Education would play the role of a facilitator to the seminaries, adding that modern education was the right of every child studying at those seminaries. “We wanted to provide modern and quality education to them, as they are also our children,” she added. She said the students would also be taught about use of social media so that they could be brought out of isolation.