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Sat 11 Nov 2008India may blame Punjab terror factions spawned by Kashmir
DOWN DUSTY lanes in the southern Punjabi town of Bahawalpur are two religious schools well-known to security services on both sides of the Pakistani-Indian border and further afield.
They do not look like centres of global terrorism. Earlier this week, when this reporter visited, students poured out of the Dar ul-Uloom Medina at the end of morning lessons and teachers sat on rope beds drinking tea and eating bananas. The high-walled, heavy-gated Usman au Ali school in the heart of the city was quiet.
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