Pakistan Province Grants $3 Million to School Known for Training Taliban Leaders

Darul Uloom Haqqania’s former students include Taliban founder Mullah Mohammad Omar

ISLAMABAD, Pakistan—A Pakistani provincial government has given a $3 million grant to a hard-line Islamic school once attended by the founder of the Taliban and other militant leaders, officials said.

Darul Uloom Haqqania seminary, a giant madrassa in the northwestern province of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, which borders Afghanistan, counts Taliban founder Mullah Mohammad Omar among its former students. Other graduates include Jalaluddin Haqqani, the veteran Afghan jihadist who headed the Haqqani network, a militant group the U.S....