Bans and curbs notwithstanding, the Pakistan-based Jamaat ud-Dawa (JD) headed by Lashkar-e-Toiba (LeT) founder Hafeez Sayeed, has undergone a facelift after the London bombings and is busy setting up modern schools.According to Pakistan daily The Post, Sayeed has placed computer sciences, English and Pakistan studies as subjects in numerous JD-controlled madarsas, in the face of recent evidence that one of the July 7 London bombers studied at a JD seminary. The JD has also set up 137 modern educational institutions, 24 of them for girls.JD spokesman Yahya Mujahid said the outfit also opened two Punjab University-affiliated science colleges, one at Muridke—the JD’s headquarters—and the other in Lahore. ‘‘Most of our schools are affiliated with secondary and intermediate boards and students appear in the examinations of these boards,’’ he said, adding that these schools could not be compelled to register, as they didn’t claim to be seminaries.Meanwhile, another banned outfit, the Harkat-ul-Mujahideen, faced a leadership crisis after its chief, Maulana Fazalur Rehman Khalil, decided to quit militancy, the Post said.Maulana Farooq Kashmiri, who was supposed to take charge of the outfit after Maulana Khalil, has also refused to lead the organisation, leaving the group without a leader, the report said.
