No extremist organizations are among re-registered religious institutions

    By Renat Tashkinbayev
    There are no extremist or terrorist organizations among the religious institutions that have passed the re-registration procedure, Tengrinews.kz reports, citing Deputy Chairman of Kazakhstan’s National Security Commission, Kabdulkarim Abdikazimov.
    “As for the re-registration of religious institutions, there were no organizations denied registration because of their terrorist or extremist nature,” Abdikazimov said at the meeting of the International Relations, Defense and Security Commission of the Senate.
    Earlier, Tengrinews.kz Egnlish reported that as a result of the re-registration the number of religious institutions was reduced by 32% to 3,088 institutions representing 16 faiths, www.tengrinews.kz reports.