25 students for the Hifz class. After some time a need was felt to have a bigger place for running this seminary so that a large number of students who were increasing with the passage of time could be accommodated. Hence In 1971, a place in the meadows of the Margalla Hills in the city's Prime Sector E-7, was acquired with the help and cooperation of several of his close friends most notably Seth Haroon Jaffer (Jaffer Group of Companies), Haji Akhtar Hassan (OSD Kashmir Affairs & Finance Secretary of Azad Kashmir), and Admiral Mohammad. Shariff, NI(M), HJ (Rtd). The seminary was shifted to the present building and it was named "Jamia Faridia" and later became known as "Al Faridia University". In 1992, he laid the foundation for Jamia Hafsa, which later on became the largest female seminary of Asia, Maulana remained the Chancellor for Both Seminaries till his Assassination in 1998 Soviet–Afghan War During the Soviet–Afghan War (1979–1989), the Red Mosque played a major role in recruiting and training Mujahideen to fight alongside the Afghan Mujahideen against Soviet troops. Meeting Bin Laden A few months before his assassination in 1998, Ghazi and his friend Zahoor Ahmad Alwi (Founder Jamia Muhammadia) and some other scholars went to Afghanistan. He took his rebellious son especially with him. This delegation met Mullah Omar, Osama Bin Laden and Ayman Al Zawahiri Assassination His biographer, Riaz Mansoor, states that Maulana had a routine every day whereby he would walk to a seminary for giving lectures (7 km away from the Red-Mosque). On the day of his assassination, he walked to Jamia Faridia and returned by car at noon. As he got out of the car, his elder son Abdul Aziz Ghazi approached him and spoke to him. When Ghazi approached his house, a man standing in front of the door walked towards him and pulled out a gun and opened fire until the magazine was empty, badly injuring Ghazi. Afterwards, he fired at Abdul Aziz, who barely escaped death. The assassin escaped with the help of an accomplice waiting outside in a car. Maulana died of his injuries on the way to the hospital. The President of Pakistan Rafiq Tarar expressed his sadness over the assassination in a letter, adding that "Maulana Abdullah Ghazi had spent his whole life for Islam, and kept the tradition of Ulema alive, his struggles will forever be remembered".