The government has issued deportation notices to five foreigners, including two Malaysians, an Indonesian and a Sri Lankan studying at the Jamia Benoria Madrassa, whose visas have expired, sources said. An administrator at the madrassa, Qari Muhammad Iqbal, has expressed "surprise" at the notices. He said that last year President General Pervez Musharraf had pledged that the government would issue visas to all those students who had no objection certificates (NOCs) from their countries' governments.