A sizeable number of Pakistan-trained Harkat-ul Mujahideen militants were persuaded to surrender by Muslim religious leaders in Assam. Disclosing this to The Asian Age on Wednesday, sources said that more than 50 Muslim boys had been trained at an ISI camp at Batrasi, near the Afghanistan border in Pakistan. Most of them have now been persuaded to desert the outfit, which was planning to launch subversive activities in Assam. This, according to sources, was made possible only because of the initiative taken by the Muslim religious leaders.