W
hile the report does not cover University education, the same processes continue atwork there. Very significantly, the Federal Public Service Commission, which selects the country's superiorbureaucracy, in its competitive examination (according to the Rules issued on August 25, 2003) also prescribesa compulsory paper on
Islamiat with a full 100 marks, which includes the concept of
Jehad amongthe "Fundamental Beliefs and Practices of Islam".
It is, thus, not renegade
madrassahs that have seeded the hatred in the minds of the people ofPakistan, raising armies of international terrorists, although these
madrassahs themselves have beensupported and sponsored by the Pakistani state. There are, moreover, only a small part of the elaboratestructure of indoctrination that has systematically been exploited by successive governments over the pastthree decades and more.
When the rich don't understand a problem, they throw money at it. So it is with Western aid to Pakistan.Uncomprehending of the floodtide of hatred they provoke among Muslims, Western policy makers are trying to'solve' the problem of the radicalisation of the Pakistani mind by investing very substantial sums of money in'
madrassah reform' and investment in education.