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Afghan foreign minister gets right to use title 'Qasmi' at Darul Uloom
The New Indian Express Sambalpur
|October 12, 2025
TALIBAN regime foreign minister of Afghanistan, Amir Khan Muttaqi, on Saturday, visited one of the biggest Islamic seminaries in Asia - Darul Uloom in Deoband, of Saharanpur district, western UP as part of his six-day trip to India.
The Taliban leader's visit to Deoband, however, goes beyond politics. Muttaqi participated in a scholarly session where he studied a Hadith (Prophetic tradition) under Maulana Mufti Abul Qasim Nomani inside the seminary's central library.
This story is from the October 12, 2025 edition of The New Indian Express Sambalpur.
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