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...Karachi: Osama the Rock Star...
...Karachi: Osama the Rock Star...
...Rashid Trust, a Muslim charity operating out of Karachi, provides financial support to jailed Islamic militants and families of those killed fighting in Afghanistan and Chechnya. Two weeks ago, an article in its newspaper, Dha'rb-i-M'umin, urged a holy war against Americans and Israelis. A charity spokesman says the newspaper is separate from the charity...
...father and sons take holidays from work and travel the length and breadth of the country, preaching God's word wherever the movement assigns them to go. They stay in mosques and try to attract more followers. And the followers come in droves. The annual Tableeghi Jamaat convention in Karachi attracts more than half a million people...
...signs on the road to Larik, the family's ancestral village 250 km north of Karachi, suggest otherwise. Visiting for the first time in eight years, Attiya is struck by the number of jihad slogans scrawled on the roadside walls. They weren't there before, but Kashmiri militant groups now recruit fighters from all over Pakistan, even in the remotest areas. Sind province is known for its mellowness; Sufism, the most tolerant brand of Islam, flourishes in the numerous shrines. So it is jarring to see the invasion of graffiti along Sind's national highway, which cuts through vast fields...