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  • Pakistan's Extremists Religious Schools 'In Mourning' For Taliban's Collapse

    02/17/2004 5:30:34 PM PST · by blam · 4 replies · 129+ views
    The Telegraph (UK) ^ | 2-18-2004 | David Blair
    Pakistan's extremist religious schools 'in mourning' for Taliban's collapse David Blair (Filed: 18/02/2004) Nothing at the spartan madrassahs has been changed, reports David Blair in Charsadda Small boys wearing white caps and flowing robes played in the shadow of jagged snow-capped peaks lining the frontier with Afghanistan. Thoughts of turmoil on the far side of the mountains still trouble staff and pupils in the spartan, bare classrooms of the Dar ul-Uloom Islamia Madrassah in Pakistan. "We are in mourning for the collapse of the Taliban," said Maulana Gouhar Shah, the leader of the madrassah. "We are still weeping for them....