Bhawalpur - A Pakistani Muslim cleric freed last month by India in return for hostages on a hijacked plane vowed yesterday to recruit half a million men to fight Indian rule in Kashmir.
"We are going to organise a 500,000-mujahideen (holy warrior) force to fight against the Indians," Mr Masood Azhar told thousands of people at an Eid al-Fitr ceremony marking the end of the Muslim fasting month of Ramadan. Last week he called for a jihad (holy war) in Kashmir.