The Washington Post says that almost all of the radical Islamic freakazoids arrested by Pakistani authorities after September 11 have now been released, and Pakistan is quickly becoming a buzzing hive of anti-Western jihadi camps: Extremist Groups Renew Activity in Pakistan.

Perhaps nowhere is Musharraf’s unfinished business more visible than on the outskirts of this farming community near Lahore, where a group called Jamaat ul-Dawa — the religious and political affiliate to Lashkar-i-Taiba and now its apparent successor — occupies a sprawling, 190-acre compound protected by barbed wire and bearded men with Kalashnikov assault rifles.

Though spokesmen for the organization say it has nothing to do with violence, the group continues to churn out books and periodicals preaching the virtues of jihad, or holy war, in Kashmir, Chechnya, the Middle East and elsewhere.

Sayeed, who founded Lashkar-i-Taiba in the early 1990s and now runs Jamaat ul-Dawa, said in a telephone interview last week that his organization remains dedicated to the armed struggle against Indian forces in Kashmir. Since Muslim Pakistan and Hindu-majority India were carved out of British-ruled India in 1947, each has claimed Kashmir as its own. The two countries’ military forces occupy separate portions of Kashmir, and Muslims in the Indian portion have been waging an insurrection with Pakistani support since 1989.

Sayeed said he does not recognize Musharraf’s pledge last spring to “permanently” end militant crossings of the Line of Control dividing Indian and Pakistani Kashmir. “Despite my detention here, jihad didn’t stop even for one day in Kashmir throughout last year,” Sayeed said, asserting that about 1,000 of his supporters have “embraced martyrdom” in Kashmir in the past two years. “India should believe me that it is beyond General Musharraf to blow a whistle and stop the jihad in Kashmir.”