Raid on Seminary in Pakistan Detains 100 Suspected Afghan Militants

Pakistani security forces have raided a madrassa, or Islamic seminary, in the southwestern city of Quetta and rounded up around 100 Afghan nationals for suspected links to militant groups, officials said. Provincial government spokesman Anwar ul-Haq Kakar told VOA the detainees did not posses any identity documents. Authorities also seized "undesired literature" from the seminary, known as Madrassa Abdullah bin Zubair. The institution, he said, has been sealed after the...

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