California shooter attended Islamic school in Pakistan
MULTAN, Pakistan (AP) — The woman who carried out last week's mass shooting in California with her husband had attended an Islamic religious school, or madrassa, while living in Pakistan, intelligence officials and the school said Monday.
Pakistan, which supports Islamic militants battling archrival India in the disputed region of Kashmir and is widely believed to have ties to insurgents in Afghanistan, has long turned a blind eye to institutions that teach radical interpretations of Islam.
"According to our records, this girl didn't complete the course," Chaudhry said, speaking over the phone from the southern port city of Karachi where she is based.
The university administration deployed extra private security guards outside the facility and after an argument with some reporters, university security officials called in the police.
Shabana Saif, a counterterrorism official, said intelligence agents seized documents, family photo albums and a laptop belonging to Malik's sister, Shahida, who was studying engineering at a Pakistani college.