Pakistan militants strengthen in heartland

Tuesday, March 24, 2009

BAHAWALPUR, Pakistan -- The compound bore no sign. Residents referred to it simply as the school for "jihadi fighters," speaking in awe of the expensive horses stabled within its high walls -- and the extremists who rode them bareback in the dusty fields around it.

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