(REUTERS)The Pakistani network brings together several known jihadists belonging to extremist groups that have targeted religious minorities for decades, police said, providing fertile ground for Islamic State’s ideology to spread. “No training camp in Wadh or safe (haven) for militants now,” the official said in a Whatsapp message. After about a month in Wadh, Usman said he travelled by motorcycle with an escort on dusty back roads to Shikarpur. “Hate-filled sermons”Police said another important suspect in the network was Hafeez Brohi, already on Pakistan’s wanted terrorist list. “The madrassas are concentrated in remote villages,” said Syed Atta Hussain Shah, the imam of the Shi’ite mosque in Shikarpur.

Source: Hindustan Times August 07, 2017 03:31 UTC