Authorities deny there is a homegrown terrorist threat to the country,
instead blaming Pakistan for allowing attacks including the recent
ones in Mumbai, to be launched across its borders.

But The Sunday Telegraph has learned that scores of young Muslim men
have disappeared from Hyderabad, and are suspected to have gone to
Pakistan to train under terror groups there. As many as 40 potential
recruits are reported to have left the city, while many other young
men remain untraced. "We have tried to establish where they have gone
but we don't know," the paper quoted Hyderabad police commissioner
Prasada Rao as saying.

The local police accuse two Islamic movements based in Hyderabad — the
Darsgah Jihad-o-Shahadath (DJS) and the Tahreek Tahfooz Shaer-e-Islam
(TTSI) — of allegedly acting as "feeder" groups for militants seeking
recruits but the organisations denied the allegations.

Members of a third local group, the Students Islamic Movement of India
(Simi) — carried out a gun attack on the police just days after the
Mumbai attacks.

Extensive surveillance operations and intelligence investigations have
failed to penetrate the inner workings of Hyderabad's radicals,
officials admit.

Officials at the DJS madrassa were not willing to discuss the
disappearance of the city's young men. While there is nothing to
suggest that the organisation orchestrates terrorist acts, the DJS
carries a message on its website that is explicit about the right of
Muslims to resort to violence. "The DJS has trained and are training
thousands of Muslim youths to defend themselves and to help, protect
and defend the other Muslims," it states, before adding that once
trained in "self -defence" members can leave to join any other Muslim
group.

According to the paper, the atmosphere in Hyderabad's alleys and
markets are marked by mutual loathing and suspicion between Muslim and
Hindu sects. "Deprivation in the predominantly Muslim old city is
palpable… The circumstances for Muslims have changed for the worse in
the 60 years of India's independence," said Judge E. Ismail of the
provincial Human Rights Commission."

http://www.dnaindia.com/report.asp?newsid=1213929
Sunday, December 14, 2008 23:14 IST

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