‘Lashkar-e-taiba recruits best and brightest from pakistan’
6 April 2013 7:35 AM IST
Terror group Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT) recruits from Pakistan’s elite, contradicting ‘a lingering belief that Islamist terrorists are the product of low or no education or are produced in madrassas’, a media report said Friday quoting an exhaustive study.
Lashkar is ‘a group whose well-educated recruits defy the idea that poverty and ignorance breed extremism. A group whose fighters include relatives of a politician, a senior army officer and a director of Pakistan’s Atomic Energy Commission’, said ProPublica, an investigative news site, citing the study.
The study released by the Combating Terrorism Center at the US Military Academy in West Point helps explain why Pakistan has resisted international pressure to crack down on Lashkar after it killed 166 people in Mumbai in 2008.
Lashkar is ‘a group whose well-educated recruits defy the idea that poverty and ignorance breed extremism. A group whose fighters include relatives of a politician, a senior army officer and a director of Pakistan’s Atomic Energy Commission’, said ProPublica, an investigative news site, citing the study.
The study released by the Combating Terrorism Center at the US Military Academy in West Point helps explain why Pakistan has resisted international pressure to crack down on Lashkar after it killed 166 people in Mumbai in 2008.
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