ABSTRACT
This chapter is a recognition of the Pakistani commitment to education in its broader sense. While they support and respect the education that is on offer in the state system, they also find certain gaps in the provision which they try to fill through the organisation of supplementary education. In response the community developed the madrassah system through which their children were could be provided additional religious and language teaching. In discussing the implications of this, it is asked whether this leads to a lack of coherence in the boys’ lives. Both the positive and negative outcomes of madrassah provision are explored. There is then a discussion of responding to this situation such as how the madrassah provision could be improved. In the context of the accommodation by the schools of the boys’ religion, it is asked whether madrassah could be provided at the school.
