Srinagar, Feb. 26 -- Now, the question arises whether a new party could help these candidates. It may or may not do. There are no guarantees in politics. The USP of being a Jamaat-i-Islami is its religio-political agenda and its loyal cadre. Also, if we go by the Jamaat's history, the party despite its religious image hasn't only been about the religion. Jamaat schools were and continue to be forward-looking in matters of education. While religious instruction in these schools is a must, it is not the paramount and exclusive focus of education like the madrassas that sprang up in hundreds across the Valley through the nineties. Long before madrassas started turning out youth with knowledge restricted to religion, Jamaat produced doctors a...