(Christian Science Monitor) - When Pakistani police last week raided the Karachi office of the outlawed Jaish-e-Mohammad, a banned extremist group linked to American journalist Daniel Pearl's murder, the militants gave them the slip and quietly moved to a local mosque. "For us, every mosque and madrasa is an office. It is the home of Allah and his soldiers, and a shield against the conspiracies hatched by Bush and [Pakistani President] Pervez Musharraf," says activist Mohammad Ejaz. Thousands of Islamic militants like Ejaz have changed their cellphones and shifted to mosques and remote locations to evade another government crackdown on groups responsible for violence in Pakistan, Kashmir, and Afghanistan.
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