Pakistan begins deporting students
Two Nepalese religious students have left Pakistan, the first of more than 1,400 foreigners set to be deported in a government drive to curb extremism at the nation’s Islamic schools. Ahmad Ali, 20, and Shabnum Shagufa, 19, students at the Jamia Naeemia ”madrassa” or religious school in the eastern city of Lahore, decided to return to Nepal after authorities warned that foreign students at madrassas could be arrested unless they left the country by September. Full Story