Islamabad: A month before the 9/11 attacks in US, the military regime in Pakistan realised that some madrassas were spreading sectarianism and extremism and there was a need to have a check on these seminaries. The government of of General Pervez Musharraf imposed ban on some sectarian outfits and introduced the Madrassas Board Ordinance 2001 in August of the same year. The aim of this ordinance was to secure the registration, regulation and uniformity of curricula in madrassas.