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If you are having trouble viewing this email click here. The following is research published today from the MEMRI Special Dispatch Series and TV Project. Note to media and government: For a full copy of this report, send an email with the title of the report in the subject line to media@memri.org. Please include your name, title, and organization in your email. Pakistani Intelligence Report Warns: Students and Teachers at 444 Madrassas in and Around Islamabad are Not Locals At Flood Relief Camps in Pakistani Towns, Lashkar-e-Taiba Leaders Impart Religious Education and Preach Jihad In Audio Interview, Sirajuddin Haqqani Says Haqqani Network is Not Separate from the Taliban, Offers of Peace Talks are Aimed at Dividing the Mujahideen Pakistani Author Ahmed Rashid: Pakistan 'Unlikely' to Act against Haqqani Network; Sirajuddin Haqqani 'is Backed by a Lot of the Pakistani Militant Groups, Such as Lashkar-e-Taiba, Jaish-e-Mohammad' Special Dispatch No. 4288—India/South Asia Studies Project/Kashmir/Jihad and Terrorism Threat Monitor Pakistani Intelligence Report Warns: Students and Teachers at 444 Madrassas in and Around Islamabad are Not Locals Wafaq ul-Madaris al-Arabia advocates pro-Taliban Deobandi ideology A secret report, prepared by the Pakistani intelligence agencies, warns that 444 madrassas situated in and around the federal capital of Islamabad are hosting a majority of students and teachers from the Pakistani tribal region, Gilgit Baltistan, Pakistan-administered Kashmir and other regions. The report was published by the BBC's Urdu Service, which is focused on Pakistan. To read the full report, visit http://www.memri.org/report/en/0/0/0/0/0/0/5821.htm. To view this report, you must be a paying member of the Jihad and Terrorism Threat Monitor Project (JTTM). For membership information, send an email to jttmsubs@memri.org with "Membership" in the subject line. Special Dispatch No. 4287—Pakistan/South Asia Studies Project/Jihad & Terrorism Threat Monitor At Flood Relief Camps in Pakistani Towns, Lashkar-e-Taiba Leaders Impart Religious Education and Preach Jihad Lashkar-e-Taiba founder Hafiz Muhammad Saeed During July-October 2011 when floods devastated Pakistani towns and villages, especially in the Sindh province, the outlawed terrorist organization Lashkar-e-Taiba organized camps to provide food and shelter for the flood-affected people. These relief camps were organized under the banner of Lashkar-e-Taiba's charity arms: Jamaatud Dawa (JuD) and Falah-e-Insaniat Foundation (FIF). After the November 2008 Mumbai terror attacks, Lashkar-e-Taiba and Jamaatud Dawa were outlawed by the UN Security Council as terrorist organizations. Last year, the Pakistani media raised a storm over a visit of Rajiv Shah, the administrator of the U.S. Agency for International Aid (USAID), to a flood relief camp at Sukkur in Sindh set up by Falah-e-Insaniat Foundation, saying that the FIF was a front organization for Lashkar-e-Taiba. To read the full report, visit http://www.memri.org/report/en/0/0/0/0/0/0/5820.htm. To view this report, you must be a paying member of the Jihad and Terrorism Threat Monitor Project (JTTM). For membership information, send an email to jttmsubs@memri.org with "Membership" in the subject line. Special Dispatch No. 4286—Afghanistan/Taliban/South Asia Studies Project/Jihad and Terrorism Threat Monitor In Audio Interview, Sirajuddin Haqqani Says Haqqani Network is Not Separate from the Taliban, Offers of Peace Talks are Aimed at Dividing the Mujahideen Former Afghan President Burhanuddin Rabbani, the head of the Afghan High Peace Council (which was appointed by Afghan President Hamid Karzai to hold peace talks with the Taliban and other militant groups in Afghanistan), was assassinated by a Taliban suicide bomber at his home in Kabul on September 20, 2011. Rabbani's assassination came barely a week after the September 13 terror attack on the U.S. Embassy and NATO headquarters in the heart of Kabul. Admiral Mike Mullen has accused the ISI of supporting the Taliban's Haqqani Network in carrying out the attack on the U.S. Embassy. The Taliban groups are part of the Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan, led by Mullah Omar. The U.S. has said that it is willing to hold peace talks with the Haqqani Network, which is led by Sirajuddin Haqqani. However, such peace efforts are seen by the Taliban as a Western trick to divide the Taliban. After Rabbani's assassination, Sirajuddin Haqqani gave an interview in which he made it clear that the Haqqani Network is not separate from the Taliban and carries out decisions of the Shura (executive council) of the Islamic Emirate. In the interview, Sirajuddin Haqqani says: "Right from the first day of the American forces' arrival into Afghanistan until this day, not only Pakistan but other Islamic and non-Islamic countries, including the U.S., contacted us for negotiations and they are still doing so. They offered a big share and important role in Afghan government if we part ways with the Islamic Emirate. But, we always replied that they should rather engage themselves in negotiations with the political commission of the Islamic Emirate. We know that the so-called reconciliation [i.e. peace process] is not their goal; rather they want to create a rift in the ranks and files of the Islamic Emirate. But now the Mujahideen better understand their tricks." To read the full report, visit http://www.memri.org/report/en/0/0/0/0/0/0/5819.htm. To view this report, you must be a paying member of the Jihad and Terrorism Threat Monitor Project (JTTM). For membership information, send an email to jttmsubs@memri.org with "Membership" in the subject line. Special Dispatch No. 4285—Afghanistan/Taliban/Pakistan/South Asia Studies Project/Jihad and Terrorism Studies Project Pakistani Author Ahmed Rashid: Pakistan 'Unlikely' to Act against Haqqani Network; Sirajuddin Haqqani 'is Backed by a Lot of the Pakistani Militant Groups, Such as Lashkar-e-Taiba, Jaish-e-Mohammad' Pakistani author Ahmed Rashid Following the September 20 assassination of former Afghan President Burhanuddin Rabbani and earlier attacks on the U.S. Embassy and NATO headquarters in Kabul, Pakistani author Ahmed Rashid answered a range of questions regarding the growing rupture in Pakistan-U.S. relations. Ahmed Rashid is a well-known journalist who has authored several books on the Taliban. In an interview with Afghanistan's TOLOnews television channel, Ahmed Rashid argued that the Taliban's Haqqani Network has enjoyed support of the Pakistani military and intelligence over a long period, and it is unlikely that Pakistan will accept U.S. demands for military action against the network, who are based in the Pakistani tribal region of Waziristan. In the interview, Ahmed Rashid also pointed out that the Haqqani Network is the most capable of all the terror organizations in Afghanistan, and is also backed by Pakistani terrorist organizations such as Lashkar-e-Taiba and Jaish-e-Muhammad, which are based in Pakistan's Punjab province. To read the full report, visit http://www.memri.org/report/en/0/0/0/0/0/0/5818.htm. Please remember the environment before printing.