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It's all about upholding an image. Inferior hindoos will never match up to advanced and cultured muslims.

Talking of advanced nature, yes. Lets recall the 'militents' in Pakistan using rockets while in India they use just guns and grenades.

Militants Attack Town in Pakistan

TANK, Pakistan Mar 28, 2007 (AP) Hundreds of militants fired rockets, killed one security official and kidnapped a school principal Wednesday in a northwestern town where police had slain two men accused of recruiting students for suicide attacks, police said.

The overnight raid underlined the strength of the militants and the weakness of Pakistani authorities in a swath of territory along the Afghan border where Taliban guerrillas fighting in Afghanistan find sanctuary. The United States fears al-Qaida is trying to regroup in the same area.

Several hundred gunmen launched the attack in Tank, a town in North West Frontier Province, sparking an hours-long battle that left at least one member of the paramilitary Frontier Constabulary dead, local police chief Omar Hayyat said.

In a clash at the privately run Oxford Public School in Tank on Monday, police killed two militants suspected of recruiting students from various schools in the area for holy war and suicide bombings. The recruiters killed one police officer with a hand grenade.

Late Tuesday, militants entered the home of Farid Ullah, the principal of the boys' school, snatched him and one of his brothers and drove them away in a vehicle, Hayyat said.

The militants later fired rockets at a police station and other nearby government buildings and set fires in two banks, said Mohammed Qasim, another police official in Tank. They withdrew shortly before dawn.

Jalandhar Khan, a guard at the state-owned Habib Bank's damaged branch, told reporters that about 20 militants on Tuesday fired rockets at the bank and tried to break into the safe.

"After failing to steal the money, they sprinkled petrol on furniture inside the bank and set it on fire," Khan said. He said the militants told him that they had attacked the town to avenge the killing of their comrades at the school.

President Gen. Pervez Musharraf is under increasing pressure from the United States, his main sponsor, to make good on pledges to counter Islamic extremism and militancy in Pakistan. Concern is focused on the semiautonomous tribal belt along the rugged border with Afghanistan.

However, the militants' influence accompanied by tribal courts, harsh social strictures as well as anti-government and sectarian violence seems to be spreading to neighboring areas such as Tank, fueling fears that more of Pakistan is becoming "Talibanized."

Police had no information Wednesday on the fate of the abducted school principal.

However, a local militant told The Associated Press that they were questioning the principal to determine whether he had alerted police about the presence of their associates at the school.

"We will kill him if we find him guilty," the militant said on condition of anonymity because he didn't want security forces to know his identity.

Zulfiqar Cheema, the police chief for the region, declined to say who was responsible for the attack, describing them only as "terrorists."

However, the militant who spoke to the AP said those who fought the police in Tank were followers of Baitullah Mahsud, a militant leader in nearby South Waziristan. The man, who spoke by telephone, has regularly provided information on behalf of Mahsud.

Associated Press Writer Munir Ahmad in Islamabad contributed to this report.