Author: PTI
Publication: www.dailyexcelsior.com
Date: March 11, 2001
With not many youth coming forward
to join militant outfits, Jaish-e-Mohammad (JeM) leaders have started approaching
innocent school students asking them to take up arms training camps during
ensuing summer vacations.
Media reports here say that JeM
activists floated by Masood Azhar, who was freed in exchange of passengers
and crew of Indian Airlines plane in Kandahar, were visiting Government
schools asking students to join military training camps in Manshera district
of NorthWest Frontier Province.
A report in "Dawn" quoted a school
principal in Rawalpindi district as saying the JeM activists "don't even
ask for permission" before addressing the student assembly to exhort them
to join the camps.
It quoted a trainee in a camp, situated
in Jaba village in Manshera, as saying that four kinds of military courses
were being imparted to about 2,000 youth.
These courses, the report said,
were 'Taseesi' for 30 days, 'Arrad' (three months), guerilla training (six
months) and 'Jandullah' (nine months) in three disciplines.
The three disciplines were 'Doshka' (use of hand-held weapons), 'Domella'
(use of shoulder-fired weapons) and 'Zaka Zak' (use of heavy artillery).
The trainee, according to the report,
said the first batch of 750 militants trained in JeM camp at Jaba had been
sent to Afghanistan.
He said militants from the Indian
side of the Line of Control were "not allowed to meet" those from Pakistan
and imparted training separately, the report added.
