Earlier this week, the Pakistani government claimed it took control of the radical Markaz-e-Taiba, the headquarters and campus for the Jamaat-ud-Dawa in the city of Muridke. Jamaat-ud-Dawa is the front group for Lashkar-e-Taiba terrorist group that was behind the November 2008 terror assault in Mumbai, India. The government appointed a chief administrator and a team of policemen to “supervise and monitor all activities” at the complex. But in Pakistan nothing is as it first seems. Bloomberg reports this team stood by while a radical imam preached jihad against India:
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