Foreign students leave Pakistan's religious schools

Two Nepalese students became the first of more than 1,400 foreigners to leave Pakistan amid 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 Lahore, decided to return to Nepal after authorities warned that foreign students at madrassas could be arrested unless they left the country by September.