University of Islamic Studies: what Wikipedia removed

A Muslim religious university in Karachi, Pakistan, whose students have been investigated over alleged terrorism ties. Through 2020 the opening said “some of the students at the university have been accused of ties to terrorism,” citing Amnesty International’s account of two students detained by Pakistani authorities on suspicion of terrorism ties. Today the opening is two sentences about the university’s 1987 founding, with no mention of terrorism at all, though the word survives five times in the body. A reader arriving now learns only when the university was founded and not that its students were investigated over terrorism ties.

The word “terror” appeared 2 times in this article’s opening at its peak, in 2015. Today the opening carries none; the body carries 5. Checked against the full current article on 2026-08-01.

Where this comes from

We saved this article’s opening paragraph at 5 moments between 2010 and 2025. Everything below is Wikipedia’s own text, quoted from those saved copies. The interactive version, with every snapshot side by side and each removal marked in place, is at ilroot.com/case/university-of-islamic-studies.

The tracked words, snapshot by snapshot

word	2010	2015	2020	6 October 2023	2025
terror	0	2	2	0	0

Counts are of the opening paragraph only, the part most readers, search engines and AI training sets ever quote.

What was taken out

• The statement that some students at the university were accused of ties to terrorism, and the reference to a Summary of Evidence memo, dropped from the opening.

How it opened then, and now

2010 (revision 326573633):

The University of Islamic Studies is a University in Karachi , Pakistan . ^ OARDEC (8 February 2007). “Summary of Evidence for Combatant Status Review Tribunal - Attash, Walie Muhammad Salih” (PDF) . Department of Defense . Retrieved 15 April 2007 . ^ “Malaysia: Further Information on - Fear of torture or ill-treatment/incommunicado detention” . Amnesty International . 24 November 2003 . Retrieved 9 July 2007 .

2025 (revision 1285219783):

Muslim religious university in Karachi, Pakistan The University of Islamic Studies is a Muslim religious university in Karachi , Pakistan . Work began on the university in 1987. ^ Pakistan Year Book . East & West Publishing Company. 1987.

Related

• The drift report: what changed across all 61,944 watched articles
• The case file for this article, with every snapshot and every marked removal
• Who made the cuts: removals grouped by the account that made them
• The live article on Wikipedia

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