The study is designed to analyze the communicative and academic needs in English for the students at Jamia Tul Madina (Faizan e Madina) madrassah at master’s level in Karachi. The theme of study is aimed to project the needs of students to learn English for the specific purposes (ESP) in light of Islamic seminary institute. The mixed method approach is followed that practice both quantitative and the qualitative methods. Two separate research instruments have been used in the study. The interview protocol is used to find the qualitative responses of English teachers and the close-ended questionnaires have been used to collect responses of the students in descriptive form. The results have shown that the students of Jamia tul Madina, an Islamic seminary institute have the particular objectives to learn English. These objectives are separate from the objectives of learning English in public and private academic institutes in Pakistan. The use of English in learning of subjects includes Hadith, Quranic Tafseer (Interpretation), Fiqh, History, translation, Business and Management.  In addition to it, the responses of the participants have presented a fact that English is used for the research purposes at the international level; it helps in the write up of thesis projects and for the communication with the foreign Islamic research scholars at the research platform. Therefore, the study concluded that the use of English is significant for the students in Madrassah to comply their specific needs in academic and communicative domains for their successful future.   

Keywords: ESP, academic, communicative, needs, Karachi, Seminary, Students,