The Maulana's classroom at the Dar ul Uloom Haqqania madrassa at Akora Khattak near Peshawar. 1,500 students. BBC
EXCLUSIVE: At Pakistan’s ‘Taliban U,’ Jihadists Major In Anti-Americanism -- FOX News
A 90-minute drive northwest of Islamabad is an Islamic seminary that is considered the ivory tower of terrorism, a jihadist factory that has produced prominent Taliban fighters and its leadership for decades.
Unofficially dubbed “University of Jihad,” Dar ul Uloom Haqqania [House of Knowledge and Truthfulness] counts Afghan Taliban leader Mullah Muhammad Omar and Jalaluddin Haqqani, founder of the dreaded Haqqani Network, among its alumni. Names of most of more than 8,000 former students who have passed through the seminary are encased in glass-covered wooden frames that hang on the walls inside the main building.
“The Haqqanis got their surname from Haqqania, this madrassa” “Ammanullah,” a proud member of the Class of 2007, told FoxNews.com during a recent tour, a rare look inside the seminary along the Grand Trunk Road in Akora Khattak.
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My Comment: Why this "school" continues to remain open (and protected by the government) is beyond me .... but such is the sorry state of Pakistan.
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