A SENIOR member of an Islamic organization linked to Al-Qaeda is funding his activities through the kidnapping of Christian children who are sold into slavery in Pakistan.
The Sunday Times has established that Gul Khan, a wealthy militant who uses the base of Jamaat-ud Daawa (JUD) near Lahore, is behind a cruel trade in boys aged six to 12.
They are abducted from remote Christian villages in the Punjab and fetch nearly $1,000 each from buyers who consign them to a life of misery in domestic servitude or in the sex trade.
Khan was exposed in a sting organized by American and Pakistani missionaries who decided to save 20 such boys and return them to their homes. Using a secret camera, they filmed him accepting $28,500 from a Pakistani missionary posing as a businessman who said he wanted to set up an operation in which the boys would beg for cash on the streets. Note: Because authorities fear the Jamaat-ud Daawa, a powerful and popular group because of its social services (the same tactic used by Islamist radicals such as the Muslim Brotherhood, Hamas, and Hezbollah) no investigation or charges have been brought against Gul Khan.
Read the rest of this entry ... (70 words left)
