a person's recruited to lashkar-i-taiba -- of persons recruited to lashkar-i-taiba were dropouts. groups have a high percentage of madrassah trainees. they were all sent out into society to recruit the boys in their villages and their neighborhoods. they would not recruit somebody who was not known to somebody in the group. before 9/11, they used to have big gatherings, annual conventions where they would invite the families of those recruits. in 1979 convention, the event that i wrote the first article on l.e.t., the number of people who attended the annual convention was close to 400,000, including -- in the three-day convention. the list showed that 400,000 people had entered the convention. they issued passes to everybody and they kept a record of that. but many people left the convention and came back. i would say that it was somewhere close to 200,000, the total, but not all were members. they were the family, the extended family. when those people came there, many joined the lashkar. many of them, at least, allowed their children to join it. after 9/11, there was only one o

the pakistan military establishment sees that the support for these terrorist groups groups like lashkar e tayyiba. gesture mohammed that has been helpful to pakistan in sort of bleeding india in question here and they're reluctant to give up this drool of militancy support for religious extremism to use as a tool against india and frankly in the form of the taliban in afghanistan to assist assert their. strategic interests and that's part of the problem and i think if we look at the fact that just this week pakistan has released from detention a terrorist leader carissa a fool out of the head of harkat all jihadi islami this is a terrorist who has been implicated in assassination attempts on benazir bhutto on president bashar a he's been implicated in a coup attempt in one thousand nine hundred five in pakistan so he's clearly an enemy of the pakistani state now if pakistan cannot keep this kind of dangerous leader this threat to pakistan itself in jail i think that raises some very serious questions about the overall law and order situation in pakistan and you know that the pakistan mi