be the core and pivot of Islamic studies, at the cost of the rest of Islamic sciences. What the country was needed at that time, an all-embracing system of standard education and training, in all its perfection, featuring the two kinds of education, the religious and the worldly, at one platform under one roof. The programme of this institution is given as under: It is often felt that the education in schools and colleges is still working on the trail left by the British masters, and these institutions are simply producing clerks instead of experts in the sciences and arts. Due to this fact our present society is facing an ever-declining state of affairs. So for as the purposeful and standard religious education and its grooming is concerned, neither allowed nor introduced properly. It is a universal fact that "knowledge, Islamic knowledge in particular, goes hand in hand with the following of Sunnah and the spirit of the great forebears of Islam. Unless one is trained and groomed to imbibe in personality, their ways and temperaments, no matter how high one has reached in worldly knowledge, intellect and research, one carries no weight in Islam." Establishment According to its booklet, Introducing Darul Uloom Karachi, this institution was founded by Muhammad Shafi Deobandi keeping in view the two objectives, the sole purpose of his life: "The first was to struggle for the implementation of the Shariah of Islam in Pakistan while the second objective was to establish a Darul Uloom at Karachi which was to be a befitting institution of higher Islamic learning in a metropolis. The first two years were consumed in formulating the Objectives Resolution that now forms part of the Constitution of Pakistan and in striving for an Islamic constitution of the state. The struggle was lace with grave handicaps and the integral support needed in the effort was meager. But, the aim was so important that he remained preoccupied with it in a degree that nothing effective could be done to establish the projected Darul Uloom." At the time of the establishment of Pakistan, Karachi had two distinctions, on the one hand it was the capital of Pakistan and the city of millions of Muslims, but on the other hand it had no central institution which could take care of the religious needs of its enormous population. It was felt necessary to establish such an institution that