The federal government has asked the provinces and the Islamabad administration to report about Kazakh nationals studying in madrassas (religious schools) in Pakistan, sources told Daily Times on Sunday. The Interior Ministry issued these directives after intelligence agencies reported that some Kazakh nationals, who are members of Islamic Movement of Uzbekistan (a militant organisation), had reportedly entered Pakistan and they were studying at madrassas, sources said. The intelligence report said that some of these Kazakh nationals escaped the military operation in tribal areas and took refuge in Pakistan's major cities and they might be involved in terrorism, sources added."The Interior Ministry has directed the four home secretaries, police and the Islamabad administration to form teams to visit unregistered madrassas in the remote areas and gather data about foreign students and their whereabouts, sources said. "The federal authorities have already formed various teams which are visiting madrassas regularly," sources said. They said there were 250 madrassas in Islamabad and its suburban areas and only 125 of them were registered.