University of Islamic Studies
{{Short description|Muslim religious university in Karachi, Pakistan}}
{{Tone|March 2012|date=March 2012}}
The University of Islamic Studies is a Muslim religious university in Karachi, Pakistan. Work began on the university in 1987.{{cite book |title=Pakistan Year Book |date=1987 |publisher=East & West Publishing Company |url=https://www.google.co.uk/books/edition/Pakistan_Year_Book/P9NFAQAAIAAJ?hl=en&gbpv=1&bsq=%22University+of+Islamic+Studies%22+-wikipedia+karachi&printsec=frontcover |language=en}}{{rp|357}}
Criticism
Some of the students at the university have been accused of ties to terrorism. The Summary of Evidence memo prepared for Tawfiq bin Attash's Combatant Status Review Tribunal stated:
{{cite web
| url=http://www.defenselink.mil/news/ISN10014.pdf#1
| title=Summary of Evidence for Combatant Status Review Tribunal - Attash, Walie Muhammad Salih
| date=8 February 2007
| publisher=Department of Defense
| author=OARDEC
| author-link=OARDEC
| accessdate=15 April 2007}} The detainee's University of Islamic Studies identification card was found at an alleged al Qaida residence in Karachi, Pakistan." Tawfiq bin Attash is alleged to have been one of the key players in the 1998 East Africa Embassy bombings and the 2000 USS Cole bombing.
Amnesty International reports that Shahrulnizam Hamzah and Mohamed Akil abdul Raof were students at the University who were apprehended by Pakistani authorities on 20 September 2003 due to suspicion they had ties to terrorism.{{cite web|url=http://web.amnesty.org/library/Index/ENGASA280292003?open&of=ENG-MYS |title=Malaysia: Further Information on - Fear of torture or ill-treatment/incommunicado detention |date=24 November 2003 |publisher=Amnesty International |accessdate=9 July 2007 |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20061027030152/http://web.amnesty.org/library/Index/ENGASA280292003?open&of=ENG-MYS |archivedate=October 27, 2006 }}
References
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Bibliography
- {{cite news |title=KARACHI: Unregistered institutes warned of closure |url=https://www.dawn.com/news/351874/karachi-unregistered-institutes-warned-of-closure |access-date=9 April 2025 |work=DAWN.COM |date=24 February 2004 |language=en}}
- {{cite book |title=In the Name of Security: Counterterrorism and Human Rights Abuses Under Malaysia's Internal Security Act |date=2004 |publisher=Human Rights Watch |url=https://www.google.co.uk/books/edition/In_the_Name_of_Security_Counterterrorism/h8E-p_PzT8YC?hl=en&gbpv=1&dq=%22University+of+Islamic+Studies%22+-wikipedia+karachi&pg=PA45&printsec=frontcover |language=en}}
- {{cite book |last1=Gunaratna |first1=Rohan |last2=Hussin |first2=Sabariah |title=Terrorist Deradicalisation in Global Contexts: Success, Failure and Continuity |date=26 September 2019 |publisher=Routledge |isbn=978-1-000-70754-0 |url=https://www.google.co.uk/books/edition/Terrorist_Deradicalisation_in_Global_Con/6R-yDwAAQBAJ?hl=en&gbpv=1&pg=PT122&printsec=frontcover |language=en}}
- {{cite book |last1=Bubalo |first1=A |last2=Phillips |first2=S |last3=Yasmeen |first3=S |title=Talib or Taliban? Indonesian students in Pakistan and Yemen |url=https://www.lowyinstitute.org/sites/default/files/bubalo-phillips-yasmeen_talib-or-taliban_web_0_0.pdf}}
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