Here is a ref to the 25,000 Jihadis in Karachi:
http://www.deepikaglobal.com/latestnews.asp?ncode=17885
Jehadi organisations active in Karachi and Punjab
Islamabad, July 13 (UNI) Over 25,000 Jehadis, who have undergone terrorist training in Afghanistan, are operating in the troubled port city of Karachi and Punjab province targeting Shias and continuing with their anti-Indian activities unbriddled, media reports said here.
"The Jehadis are continuing to kill Shias quite freely. In some cases the Police has been found involved in the Shia-killing spree," reports Friday Times.
It said leaders of the coalition of the Jehadi organisations -- Brigade 313 -- were either allowed to flee or escape from police dragnets. Lashkar e Toiba, Jaish-e-Mohammed, Harkatul Jihad Islami, Harkatul Mujahideen Al Alami and Lashkar -e-Jhangvi are among the coalition.
The authorities have recently captured some police officials who maintained close links with the Harkatul Mujahideens and other groups, it said and added the Jehadis, facing trial in the province, were being acquitted by the courts.
The Weekly said that a worrying development was that Punjab was becoming a sanctuary for the Lashkar Jhangvi terrorists.
President Pervez Musharraf,who had launched a campaign against the terrorist groups, have failed to contain their activities in Punjab and Sindh Provinces as Jehadis have stepped up their activities. The President said that Al Qaeda elements were operating from the tribal Areas and were responsible not only for acts of terror inside Pakistan, but also in other friendly countries including China.
The Weekly said that leaders of the top five terrorists groups were "either in confinement or allowed to remain at large. Those in confinement under the state surveillance have been allowed to get out and disappear." At least two important terrorist satraps Hafiz Mohammed Saeed of the LeT and Maulana Masood Azhar of JeM, whose groups were actively involved in "low intensity conflict in Kashmir" were virtually free and issuing "provocative statements", it said. Both Hafiz Saeed and Maulana Azhar had maintained links with Osama bin Laden.
It said "the militants that would kill President Musharraf are militants that have spearheaded the Kashmir jihad. They are all deobandi-Wahhabi in character and aligned with the Al-Qaeda.
President Musharraf should grasp the mettle of terrorism in Pakistan and get rid of it even it means no option on the resumption of Jehadi in Kashmir. The price for Kashmir option is very high and the people of Pakistan may finally refuse to pay it with their blood."
Interesting.
Al Qaeda has implemented efforts to end the schism between Sunni and Shiite, instead preferring to concentrate on the west as its main enemy. In fact, I understand that even discussing differences between the sects is considered a sin under AQ's twisted interpretation of the Koran.
Of course, thetical differences have bever stayed AQ's hand in alliances past.