KARACHI, Pakistan: An Islamic seminary says the Pakistani government is deporting eight foreign students.
Mufti Naeem Ahmed, head of the Jamia Binuria seminary, says the Interior Ministry is ordering the students to leave the country within 15 days. The students are from the United States, Thailand and Fiji.
Ahmed says the government gave no reason for the order and the seminary will appeal to have it rescinded. About 500 of the seminary’s 5,000 students are foreign.
Pakistan’s Islamic seminaries have been accused of being breeding grounds for militants. Several leaders in the Taliban militia fighting U.S.-led forces in Afghanistan graduated from religious schools in Pakistan.
