Last month, Pakistan's Ministry of Foreign Affairs ordered Maulana Mufti Mohammed Naeem, the madrassa's founder, to return Muna and two other non-Pakistani students to their home nations. The children are being held due to the expiration of their religious education visas to study Islam and the Koran. "Yes we have received the deportation orders but we will not hand her over," Maulana Mufti Mohammed Naeem, founder and head of the Jamia Binoria madrassa, a 12-acre sprawling walled compound seminary, told the Deutsche Presse-Aguntur news service. "No one could dare come near a one mile radius of our compound," he said. In early July, SAFER worked with U.S. Congressman Michael McCaul to secure the release of Noor and Mahboob Khan, two brothers from Atlanta also held at the madrassa on expired religious education visas. "Without the intervention of Congressman McCaul, the US State Department and the Pakistani government, the Khan brothers would still be in the Jamia Binoria madrassa," Pertierra said. "The U.S. government must act swiftly to also release Muna and all the American children held at Jamia Binoria." The 2008 documentary 'Karachi Kids' by filmmaker Imran Raza found nearly 80 American children currently attending Pakistan's Jamia Binoria madrassa. Jamia Binoria is among an estimated 15,000 Pakistani madrassas. The madrassas recruit children as young as six from around the world to study Islam and memorize every verse and phrase of the Koran.