What a surprise!

From the “Times of India”, 21st December 2006:

Madrassa found to be LeT recruitment cell

Excerpts:

“…In a startling discovery police in north Kashmir have stumbled on a full0fledged recruitment cell of the Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT) in a madrassa in Sopore.

The Dar-ul-shamas-ul-Uloom has been in existence for the last six years, the police said and claimed that it was in fact a clandestine recruiting center for the Lashkar: Founded by Moulvi Abdul Ahad Rahter alias Bitta Molvi, Dar-ul-Shama-ul-Uloom, at Tarzoo in Sopore, has 300-old students in the age group of seven to thirty years preparing to become Imams, but was nothing more than a Lashkar recruitment center, the police stated.

Said SP Sopore Mir Imtiaz, “With the arrest of four LeT operatives from Dar-ul-shamas-ul-Uloom, ostensibly an Islamic Darasgah, we have discovered that Pakistani ultras have started outsourcing terrorist actions to ‘talibs’ (students) in madrassas.”

…Though booked for harboring and running terror school, the maulvi was released on court orders this month, the SP said.

Talking to TOI, Latief admitted he was sent for 15 days’ arms training to Kupwara forests and that it was the maulvi who handed him over to two LeT men for training. ”

M Saleem Pandit, TNN, TOI. Delhi edition, Pg 5.

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