The petitioner had also requested that the custody of Pak-Turk Schools be granted to Turkiye Maarif Foundation. Announcing its verdict, the top court had ordered the interior ministry to include the name of PTICEF in the first schedule to Section 11-B of the Anti-Terrorism Act, 1997. Counsel for Pak-Turk school administration observed that the Turkish government had no role in the establishment of the schools. He further said that Malaysia had not shut these schools down, to which Justice Saeed replied, “Then you should go to Malaysia.”Justice Saeed asked the counsel, “Do you want to change [the school’s] name and fool people again? The Pak-Turk schools were administered by a foundation linked to Fethullah Gulen, once an ally of Turkey’s President Recep Tayyip Erdogan.

Source: The Express Tribune April 16, 2019 17:01 UTC