Afghanistan's key Taliban leaders studied at Pakistan's madrassa: Report

Darul Uloom Haqqania madrassa in Pakistan has educated more Taliban leaders than any school in the world and its alumni now hold key positions in Afghanistan, a report said.

Darul Uloom Haqqania madrassa, one of Pakistan’s largest and oldest seminaries and dubbed as the ‘university of jihad’ by its critics for helping sow violence across the region for decades, has educated more Taliban leaders than any school in the world and its alumni now hold key positions in Afghanistan, according to a media report.

The seminary in Pakistan’s restive Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province has had an outsize effect in Afghanistan. The seminary’s alumni founded the Taliban movement and ruled Afghanistan in the 1990s.