Pakistan - Except for the black saber painted on the entrance sign, this sprawling rural complex could be the campus of a thriving agricultural college. New brick buildings are rising among healthy wheat fields and shallow fish-breeding ponds.
Students lounge on the grass.
Its centerpiece is an Islamic university with 1,000 students, whose subjects include science, English, Arabic, Koranic studies and jihad. If Allah is willing, we shall obey. At the moment, hundreds of highly trained Lashkar fighters are waging an intense jihad in Indian Kashmir, where they regularly use suicide squads to attack military facilities and stage deadly encounters with security forces. The two countries have fought two wars since 1947, plus a 10-week border skirmish last year, over Kashmir. In the last decade alone, more than 50,000 people have died in the Kashmiri conflict.