LAHORE: The Punjab government on Wednesday decided to establish a correctional facility for suspects belonging to proscribed organisations.

Chief Minister Punjab Shahbaz Sharif approved a Rs240million grant which would be utilised to establish an academy where scholars and ulemas of different schools of thought would educate and train the radicalised activists in order to return and re-integrate them into society.

At least 1,300 persons would be enrolled in the rehabilitation program in its first phase.

A similar de-radicalisation centre, the Mishal school in Swat, is already being run by the army in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province.