LAHORE: The Punjab cabinet on Thursday approved 2 per cent education quota for religious minorities in the higher education institutes of the province, a move lauded by many. To corroborate, he quoted data collected from government departments which “showed that most of the people belonging to the religious minorities were doing menial jobs”. Just days before the end of the last government, the then Punjab higher education minister Syed Raza Ali Gillani had constituted a committee to deliberate the introduction of a minority quota for higher education but representatives from public universities presented a huge resistance to providing a special quota for religious minorities. “We started our campaign for a minority education quota in 2015 with provincial and federal ministers, bureaucrats. Journalist Tahir Mehdi, who has done extensive work on religious minorities, sees this a very good step.

Source: Pakistan Today April 30, 2020 19:30 UTC