In the wake of the Bombay attacks, Indian officals have denied that there is a homegrown terrorist threat, instead blaming Pakistan for allowing Islamists to attack across its borders. But it now comes to light that as many as 40 young, male Muslims have disappeared from the central Indian city of Hyderabad, which has a large Muslim minority. They are suspected of having left for Pakistan to be trained by the country’s Islamist terror groups.

Educators appear to figure in this exodus:

A wall of community silence has protected the activities of teachers and other shadowy figures working inside fundamentalist Islamic schools and mosques. “We have tried to establish where the city’s youth has gone but we don’t know,” said Hyderabad’s police commissioner, Prasada Rao. “We know they have gone to other places, either Indian states or abroad. We are checking but the parents or the others will not let us into what’s going on.”