The woman who took part in the ISIS-inspired San Bernardino massacre is linked to her native country's most notorious radical mosque, American officials believe.

Sources have told Daily Mail Online that US officials handed over information to their Pakistani counterparts about links between Tashfeen Malik and the Red Mosque in Islamabad.

The mosque is infamous for its links to violence and authorities in Pakistan are now considering taking action against its preacher, Maulana Abdul Aziz, after the disclosures by US officials.

It is unclear currently how law enforcement and intelligence agencies in the US have connected Malik to the mosque.

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Links: US officials told their Pakistani counterparts today that Tashfeen Malik was linked to the country's most notorious mosque

Notorious: Radical preacher Maulana (a title given to Islamic scholars) Abdul Aziz runs the Red Mosque in Islamabad, which US officials say is linked to Tashfeen Malik, wife of Syed Farook. The couple massacred 14

Hotbed: The Red Mosque - Lal Masjid - at the center of Islamabad has become known for its close association with Islamic fundamentalism. A year ago its chief cleric openly spoke of his support for ISIS

Links: Tashfeen Malik is known to have studied in Multan but US officials now say she is linked to the notorious Red Mosque in Islamabad, the capital of Pakistan. Its chief cleric has publicly said he supports ISIS

In the immediate aftermath of the attack on Wednesday, a US intelligence official told Daily Mail Online that his agency was investigating Sayeed Farook's ties to known terror groups abroad, saying: 'The United States will leave no stone unturned.

'This is what we do. If he has ever communicated with ISIS, al-Qaeda, al-Nusra, or any other known Islamic threat group, we'll find out.'

Malik is now known to have proclaimed her loyalty to ISIS shortly before the attack.

American officials have now held crisis talks with one of Pakistan's most senior figures Shahbaz Sharif, brother of prime minister Nawaz Sharif, at the country's High Commission in London, sources revealed.

Sources with knowledge of the meeting told Daily Mail Online that the US had handed over 'some proofs' of links to the Red Mosque, known in Urdu as Lal Masjid.

Pakistani authorities were described as 'seriously thinking' of how to take action against Aziz, the chief cleric of the mosque.

Malik was born in Pakistan and lived there until the age of two then raised in Saudi Arabia, where she lived in Riyadh where her father, Gulzar Ahmed Malik is thought still to live.

Saudi sources told ABC News that she had traveled back and forward between the two countries.

She returned to Pakistan in 2010 to study pharmacy at the Bahauddin Zakariyah University in Multan. The city, in the south of the Punjab, is believed to be where her family originally came from.

Public records show that she was a high-achieving student.

There are conflicting accounts of her educational achievements. She completed a three-year master's degree in pharmacy.

Education: Tashfeen Malik apparently left Saudi Arabia aged 25 to study a pharmacy degree at Bahauddin Zakariya University, Multan. It is in the same province, the Punjab, from which her family are understood originate

Evidence: Public documents show that Tashfeen Malik was a pharmacy student. It is not entirely clear if she completed the fourth year of her studies

She was also listed as being in the fourth year of a D Pharm degree in 2014, although she may not have completed it.

Intelligence agencies will be examining her time in the Punjab, the country's most populous province, where there has been a growing Pakistani Taliban threat.

But the link to the Red Mosque may prompt the most rapid action by Pakistani authorities.

It achieved international notoriety in 2007, when it was at the center of a bloody siege as fundamentalists clashed with security forces.

The siege came after months of increasingly violent demonstrations in favor of sharia law in Pakistan and in support of the Taliban in Afghanistan.

When rioters set a government ministry on fire, government troops took action against the mosque and an eight-day stand-off with running firefights ensued.

The siege was ended when Pakistani special forces moved in. Accounts of the number of deaths vary from 91 claimed by Pakistan police to around 300 by two television stations, to as high as 1,000 by fundamentalist political parties.

The siege prompted Osama bin Laden's deputy, Ayman al-Zawahiri, to call for Pakistan's people to rise up against its government, but led to the discovery of huge amounts of heavy weapons concealed in the heart of the country's capital city.

Involvement: US officials met Shahbaz Sharif (right) for crisis talks in London today. He is brother of the current prime minister Nawaz Sharif (left). Pakistani authorities have been told of the discovery of links between Tashfeen Malik and the country's Red Mosque

Death: At least scores, and maybe hundreds, died in the siege of the Red Mosque in 2007 - but its fanatical cleric leader escaped in a burka

Network: Maulana Abdul Aziz surrounded by followers, some of them children. His mosque runs a network of religious schools as well as having its own militia

Inspiration: Muhlana Abdul Aziz named a library in the mosque after Osama bin Laden

It did not, however, end the mosque's infamy. In the course of the siege one of its two leaders, Aziz, escaped dressed in a burka.

He was freed from custody in 2009 and welcomed by cheering mobs and since then has become notorious for his rhetoric. Maulana is a title referring to his leadership of preaching at the mosque.

In 2013 he named a library after Osama bin Laden, and last year said that he supported ISIS.

He told Pakistani newspaper Express Tribune that the leadership of the mosque had decided to promote the mission and message of ISIS, although it did not have direct links with the Middle Eastern terror group.

He also refused to condemn a massacre of schoolchildren in Rawalpindi, which proved too radical for even some of his mosque, who held demonstrations against him.

Aziz has escaped successful criminal prosecution so far in Pakistan, having pled not guilty to a series of claims laid against him in court.

However, the mosque boasts a militia and a series of linked madrasas - religious schools - for him to spread his influence.

Aziz shares an ethnic background with Malik, coming from the Pakistani Punjab. He was born in Rojhan, around 200 miles from where she studied.

It is so far unclear if she and the notorious cleric share a tribal background too.

Malik came to the US last year on a K-1 - fiance's - visa and received a green card after marrying Farook.

The two are believed to have met online and married abroad, possibly in Saudi Arabia. Farook's lawyer has denied that he had traveled to Pakistan.