The madrassas reportedly belonged to Qazi Hamidullah Khan - a teacher of Taliban supreme leader Mullah Omar, the Express Tribune said.
The police carried out a raid on madrassa Mazahirul Uloom and Anwarul Uloom in Punjab's Gujranawala, the seventh largest city of Pakistan.
Officials from 30 police stations headed by the Superintendent of Police raided the seminaries.
Authorities arrested twenty-one foreign students living there without any valid documents, Geo News reported.
The nationality and the names of the foreigners could not be ascertained.
The security officers are investigating how and when these foreigners arrived in Pakistan and under which visa.
According to the law, if a person is not a Pakistani national, he cannot study in the country without official registration.
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