Foreign Minister of Taliban government in Afghanistan Amir Khan Muttaqi is visiting Darul Uloom Deoband in Uttar Pradesh as it holds ideological relevance for Taliban. Many senior Taliban commanders studied at Darul Uloom Haqqania in Pakistan's Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province, an institution modelled after Deoband. Maulana Haq, founder of Haqqania, had studied and taught in Deoband before partition.