HYDERABAD: Ruet-i-Hilal Committee chairman Mufti Muneebur Rehman has said that mixed dancing of men and women or dhamal has nothing to do with the teachings of the saints.

One day a week should be fixed for women`s visit at shrines during which men`s entry should be strictly prohibited, he said while speaking to journalists at the residence of a Jamiat Ulemai-Pakistan leader here on Tuesday night.

Mufti Muneeb said that ringing of bells at Lal Shahbaz Qalandar shrine was also against the teachings of saints.

He said that the federal government should notify all the seminaries which it claimed were serving as nurseries of terrorists, and avoid making generalising statements about them in the backdrop of extremism and terrorism.Mufti Muneeb, who was also president of Tanzeemul Madaris Ahle Sunnat Pakistan, said that if there was a list of 96 seminaries which were purportedly nurseries of terrorism, then it should be made public so that people should know about them.

He said functionaries and all state institutions would have to be on the same page to fight terrorism, but it seemed they were not on the same page. He said government functionaries were responsible for eliminating terrorists` network instead of issuing statements of condemnation after each terrorist incident.

He said the country`s leadership did not appear focused and the culture of allegations and counter-allegations was harming the country. When the leadership was not focused, it would not be able to take important decisions, he said. He said that leaders were engaged in `point scoring` after every major ter-rorist incident. Even on the question of military courts, there was no consensus among the major parties, he said.

He said that militancy had been controlled to a great extent after operation Zarb-i-Azb but the fresh spate of terrorist activities had showed that militants had reorganised themselves.

Mufti Muneeb said that ulema did not have any militant wings and they were ready to offer unconditional support to the government to get rid of the menace of terrorism. He said that there should be a national agenda for the security of China-Pakistan Economic Corridor as it should not be dependent on the government of the day. About the security of shrines, he said, ever since the Auqaf department started managing the shrines, conditions had worsened. He demanded formation of governing boards comprising ulema to run the shrines in line with the religion.