Madrasa sued for sending boy to Afghan front

The case is unprecedented. Hundreds of students from Pakistan’s religious schools have joined the so-called `jihad’ or holy war across the border in Afghanistan, but this is the first time that a principal of a seminary has been charged with abduction.

The Sindh high court has told the police to investigate the charges. Authorities in Sindh have widened the probe, ordering the police to investigate seminaries across the southern Pakistani province after reports that many more students had disappeared, but their parents, fearing a backlash, had kept silent.