MULTAN, Pakistan (AP) – Pakistani intelligence officials say the California shooter Tashfeen Malik attended a religious school while living in Pakistan, where she studied pharmacy in the central city of Multan.
The officials identified the school on Monday as the Al-Huda International Seminary, a women-only madrassa with a chain across Pakistan and branches in the U.S. and Canada.
Al-Huda’s founder, Farhat Hashmi, now living in Canada, has been criticized for promoting a conservative strain of Islam. The school has no known links to extremists.
Al-Huda’s spokeswoman Farrukh Chaudhry says she cannot confirm whether Malik studied there until she goes through the records because “we have thousands of students.”
The officials spoke on condition of anonymity under regulations.
Malik and her American-born husband were killed after carrying out Wednesday’s mass shooting in San Bernardino, California.