Arrested Sakhi Sarwar bomber reveals Arabs, Uzbeks and Tajiks are amongst the militants in Mir Ali. PHOTO: REUTERS
Umar Fidai, the would-be suicide bomber of the Sakhi Sarwar shrine blasts, has said that as many as 350 people are being trained as suicide bombers in Mir Ali, North Waziristan.
In an exclusive interview with Express 24/7, 14-year-old Umar said that those being trained included Uzbek, Tajik and Arab nationals, while some hail from Punjab.
Speaking about the network, he said that a man named Sangeen Khan travels from Waziristan to Afghanistan and picks out targets for suicide bombers while another man named Naeem indoctrinates the bombers. He said that six trained men had been sent to various districts of Punjab with explosive material for more attacks.
But the young boy who said he lost his father Akbar Khan in a blast in Karachi a few months ago, apologised to the nation and said he would work for the welfare of humanity if acquitted.
“I am ashamed of my act. We killed innocent people,” Umar told reporters, appealing to other suicide bombers to abandon such activities.
“I was totally misguided and told that I’m being sent to Afghanistan. I was surprised when we reached Dera Ghazi Khan and even discussed the issue with Zar Ali (the alleged mastermind of the attack),” Umar said, adding that they were blindfolded for the entire journey. Umar said that they travelled in a van from DG Khan to Sakhi Sarwar and loaded the jackets just as they neared the shrine.
According to police sources, Umar and Ali stayed at a hotel in DG Khan where the room was booked using Ali’s national identity card. They said that the investigation team had arrested the hotel’s owner and a number of its employees for interrogation. However, the DG Khan police are yet to issue a sketch of Ali, the alleged mastermind of the attack, who died in the shrine blast.
He said that while being trained, he was told that he must trigger the explosives in his suicide jacket as soon as a large crowd had gathered at the shrine. He said that he was told to press a specific button near the area where people ‘worshipped the dead’.
Published in The Express Tribune, April 9th, 2011.
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Its time that Government should make clear policy to counter terrorism amending laws so the courts can convist them, identifying, arresting the groups and starting a coordinated efforst supported by Govt, masses and the Law Enforcement agencies. Policy should also indetify rehabiliation of people and the economy of areas under operation to wipe out terrorists.Recommend
The persons training those bombers are not Muslim. Unfortunately, some politician are in contact with those trainers to use bombers as for their benefit, e.g. For attack on another politician etc.. Politician are the big enemy of nation, they r busy in filling their pockets.. Listen! You all such persons will come to an end with a terrific death.Recommend
350 suicide bombers in one small non-descript town. Pakistan is heading straight to hell….Recommend
How dare! NW is the home of the “good” Taliban! Maligned conspiracy!Recommend
So suicide bombers arent pushtoon nationalists as Imran Khan and Munawar Hassan want us to believeRecommend
Forget about Mir Ali (North Waziristan), there are Afghans, Tajiks and Uzbeks running drugs & ammunition shops and all kinds of illegal activities in the Sohrab Goth area of Karachi. Dont beleive it, go and have a look at it yourself. All is being done under the garb of running restaurants. Recommend
Imran and Munawwar chew grass considering it naswar.Recommend
Awesome News. Given that each one will be able to kill or maim about 60-100 in each attack we are looking at 350*100 = 35,000 People vanishing. Awesome news.Recommend
Pathetic ! A poor innocent child is brainwashed to do the dirty work of some religiously-wayward mullah !! My heart goes out to the children caught in the crossfire. The only force that can stop this carnage is the army and I hope they find the will to put an end to this.Recommend
@Iffo:
The persons training those bombers are not Muslim.
Then who are they????????Recommend
We are reaping the chaos we have been sowing for last 30+ years!
And even still, we’d rather blame India for our own self-made hell on earth!Recommend
Arabs, Uzbeks and Tajiks are amongst militants in the area.
Latest indonesians that too 300 and 400 in numbers in a camp just like Jhadi factory because pakisthan muslims are having bigger heart pls.refer afridi what to say about thisRecommend
Cyclone hits Karachi…Abdullah shah Ghazi Speechless
http://karachimetrological.wordpress.com/2011/04/06/cyclone-hits-karachi-india-war-with-ghazi-deepens/Recommend
Given a choice, u can either kill them through carpet bombing, drones or whatever or be ready for them to attack u, ur parents, family, friends in your gatherings when you are least expecting. The ones who are against drone attacks need to realize the way to protect urself from these guys is to finish them. Its too late to invest in the infrastructure and win their hearts. We should have done that 30 years back not now. Its over !Recommend
**350 children may be and uneducated and poor
because children ,uneducated is brainwashed
check the list of people missing
**Recommend
All please pray for long lives of Suicide bombersRecommend
Why do I get the feeling that Umar Fidai and his boys, whenever caught, are quietly released later on without any charges or punishments? Looks like the ISI,FIA,IB,MI really know their priorities for the nonsensical addiction of ‘strategic depth’.Recommend
RAW Conspiracy!Recommend
350*100=35000 that would be worse than the floods and the earthquake put together this can not even be imagined how can one even think of planning a murder on this scale .PEVERTSRecommend
What is the point of publishing this secret information for the masses…??? …
Do we have any sense?….Recommend
@Iffo
The persons training those bombers are not Muslim. Unfortunately, some politician are in contact with those trainers to use bombers as for their benefit, e.g. For attack on another politician etc..
Where do you live brother? Sangeen Khan, Naeem, Arabs, Uzbeks and Tajiks sound like non-muslims to you? And do elaborate, which politicians attacked Data Durbar and Sakhi Sarwar Shrines?
Pull your head out of the sand please.Recommend
this is the reason that i strongly believe that government should invest in education health economy since suicide attacks cannot be stoped by increasing defence budget. it can only be done by training children so that they are not brainwashed by so called jihadisRecommend
If you choose to have snakes as pets they begin to multiply and quite a few of them will bite you in the behind. Pakistan has to suffer for its folly. I hope its mistakes do not have any effects on India. Recommend
ISI should now stop supporting these so called talibans and the killing of innocent people …ISI first destroyed afghanistan and now they are destroying pakistan Recommend
It is the conspiracy of RAW,MOSAD.Indians might have enterered from afghan side to Pak.Muslims are large hearted people,they won’t harm anyone.:)Recommend
Now blame it on raymond davos & india, UFO, USA & go to sleepRecommend
@M. Ali:
lol! You are funny.Recommend
Until the Pakistan state do not change the policy of ‘strategic depth’ in Afghanistan and don’t provide safe heaven and mentorship to militants and Jihadists, it is not far that the central Punjab will be burning too. Recommend
The army claims it needs rests and has no resources. So Pakistanis will have to live with these attacks. Recommend
@M Ali it would be an eye opener for you please go and meet this poor boy Umar Fidai, Recommend
And when Americans say that get into N. Waziristan and root out these idiots and their leaders, whole pakistan turn against them as if Americans are the evil one and it is because of them these idiots were born.
Pakistan army is doing a lot there but not whole heartedly. If the PAK nation was cheering for Kargil operation, which had and has no value for ” Pakistan National security and Interest”, why can not they do it in N. Waziristan.
This is a war. This is Pakistan national interest and security. America and allies are not going out of Afghanistan any time soon. Afghanistan is going to be new S.Korea,in militarily sense.
In case if you guys have noticed, US is officially asked to stay in Iraq for quiet some time.
These suicide idiots have no further place to go except to enter Pakistan.
Contrary to what has been propagandized in PAK, Pakistan is a partner on war on terror with NATO, and it is not America / NATO war, it is Pakistan’s war at this phase of conflict and NATO is holding the line on the other side of conflict for PAK to finish it.
Patience on the Durran line is wearing out. Recommend
Pakistani’s heart is very big. They not only train their own children but also foreign children,Recommend
This is a great example of why Pakistan is considered the nexus of terrorism throughout the World – you have an international suicide bomber school within your precious “sovereign territory” – get off you duff and do something about it!Recommend
@J.Oberoi
You stole my thunder, Nothing can be more sad then to see the children being used for such heinous acts Sad to imagine how children like him and the ones who have lost their guardian in this tragedy will face life.Recommend
Dudes, what you do not know is who is behind training these child nation of bombers, this is some serious stuff, the enemies are using our own childeren not their. And the recruiters are scums who only are working for money, no other objective is there. So we should get agry with Rahman Malik who let 1000s of black water in without visa. Ali this is their job now. We are brain washed by our own mainstream media who we think is so sincere, no, they are too deceiving us. We know that most of media girls dance with enemies of the nation in privare parties. So who is the real mujrim here………..thinkRecommend
@Ravi:
Thet are 100 % pure Muslims ; no arguments on thisRecommend
@Raymond davis: You are right. India is behind funding the criminals and terrorists who cross from Afghanistan. We need to bring this up on the world stage and make India responsible for the terrorism it supports. As for all of these foreigners, we need to deport them all- Uzbeks, Tajiks, Afghanis and Indian agents who cause misery for Pakistanis.Recommend
@M Ali Khan:
Thank you Sir, for absolving us Recommend
priority is permanent solution
parents should check their children behaviourRecommend
@Noor
Get your geography book out quickly.
Done?
Now let us locate North Waziristan where these children are being trained .
Done?
Excellent. Now refer back to news papers of 2006 and locate ‘peace treaty handing over North Waziristan to Taliban.
Done?
Fantastic. Now tell me who signed this peace deal?
Splutter, splutter, gasp, gasp- It was the commndo COAS, masquerading as President of Pakistan
Now let us go back to the news report.It says” Umar Fidai, said Arabs, Uzbeks and Tajiks are amongst militants in the area.”
Since Arabs Uzbeks and Tajiks are not water ‘black,white,chilled or hot’, your thesis So we should get agry with Rahman Malik who let 1000s of black water in without visa. is bunkum.Pure and unalloyed mumbo jumbo.
So who is the real mujrim here………..think
Yes, for God’s sake, THINK, AND NOT INVENT EXCUSES.Recommend
i hav just 2 questions …ist til now we hav heard a lot abt dese militants being captured bt da reality is how many of dem hav been hanged by our so called courts??mostly are being released ….simply neither our govt nor law enforcmnt agencies n our law seemz intrstd in eliminatd terorism frm ds land……thngs will keep hapning ,
2nd..sum peopl in our cntry support taliban saing d8 dey r doing jehad against USA…my stpd nativz if dese talibanz are intrstd in doing jehad dn y dnt dey do bomb blasts in US MARRINES PLACES….till now how many US armed forces hav been killed?? we hear a lot abt US agencies working inside pak y talibbans dnt target dem?? y dey are killing innocnt peopl ov ds land ?? ds all leads to 1 thng dese talibans are enemies of pak n dose who are supportng dem are deir just helping dem ….MA GOD KEEP PAK SAFE FROM ALL DESE BLAK SHEEPSRecommend
So we have 300-400 Atom Bombs ready to explode in our own country. The government has recently increased above 15% from already sanctioned amount to our Armed Forces for what???? These are the areas which are highly influenced by JI and Imran Khan and to some extent JUI (all factions). No further comments. It is too scary.Recommend
chemical the whole of tribal belt. problem over! Recommend
@Maria:
You are Another Brainwashed human being in making. You cant even face the reality that these are our own deeds which we are facing now.Recommend
@patriotic paki:
Whole heartedly agree!Recommend
@Aftab Kenneth Wilson:
The same ” tactical” thoughts outside of PAK as well.Recommend
@Maria:
Oh, so now it is the Indians training your fidayeen? Whose “strategic depth” is it anyway? Looks like Pakistan is a nation of Mir Jaffers. Indians are so easily able to turn the citizens against their own nation. Now that you have zeroed in on the problem, good luck with fixing it. [shakes head]Recommend
@M Ali Khan,
“We are reaping the chaos we have been sowing for last 30+ years”
Don’t tell me that we are also responsible for Arabs, Chechens, Uzbeks, Afghans and Tajiks venturing aimlessly into our country! These are foreigners who simply need to be deported. It has been proved here that suicide bomings in Pakistan are not mostly the handiwork of Pakistanis but in fact foreigners hell bent on destroying this country. Deport all foreigners. Pakistan is for Pakistanis only. It may sound racist but its as simple as that if u want this country to survive. The Af-Pak border should be sealed permanently as all foreign terorirsts have links somehow within Afghanistan. We need to stop having big hearts and need to show the ‘go away’ sign to foreigners, whether they are ‘brother’ Arabs, Afghans or TajiksRecommend
An interior ministry typically responsible for policing, national security, and immigration matters. I remembered that before current Govt. We had controlled the illegal, critical, danger, especially other countries secret agents enteries result we were not that much in worst situation whal we are in right nowadays. Unfortunately no. of secret agents have now enetered in Pakistan and they started their work to make this country in critical situation for the benefit of their country. you can see Jacabad, islamabad etc where complete setup has given to other country’s forces to live here even Pak Army is bounded to get permission to them for entry. It is difficult now but not impossible to get them all out and stricly ensure the restriction onward. If they do it i believe that kind of enethical activites can be controlled…….GOD bless Pakistan! Recommend
Blunt! Only idiots see RAW hand in the training of suicide bombers inside Pakistan. Terror training is Pakistan’s speciality. They have great number terrorist training factories which are producing graduates, post-graduates and professors in terrorsm. Almost all the maulanas have forgotten principles of religion and are teaching terrorism from their mosques.
As for RAW, it is a bunch of idiots who do not know how to kill one Indian terrorist living in Karachi for almost 2 decades with Pakistani passport under the ISI protection, flying from Karachi to Hyderabad Sindh in own plane. RAW is a totally failed organisation as it can not get hold even one terrorist who fled to Pakistan after terrorist strikes inside India. Same is true of all the Pakistani terrorists like Maulana Azhar, Hafiz Saeed, Salahuddin, Ilyas Kashmiri, etc whom RAW can not find and kill.
RAW is an impotent organisation. It is an organisation of beaurocrats pushing papers from in-tray to out-tray, taking their salaries and going home to embrace their wives and sleep, with thoughts of having done great job for their country which of course is zilch. You are over-estimating the RAW guys who do not have even raw skills to protect their country from enemy states and people.Recommend
In this regard, media should launch a campaign and awaken the youth about that how terrorist activities are illicitness in moraly, religiously, and in every aspect of life Recommend
Pak.Muslims are large hearted people,they won’t harm anyone.:)Recommend
kasab also in indian custody and this small child in pakisthan custody
whats the diffenrence between this boy and kasab. More over if pakisthan muslims are big hearted they should have forgiven Taseer saab and should not have celebrated his deathRecommend
America and allies are not going out of Afghanistan any time soon. Afghanistan is going to be new S.Korea,in militarily sense. along with
drone attack whenever it necessary this going happen.Recommend
@Iffo: Trainers of bombers are not muslim, then who are they? Don’t try to hide your terrorism face. Pakistan is suffering for their own deeds. You people nourished this terrorism factory and exported worldwide. And now they turned hostile to pakistan so yo are calling them non-muslim. Acept and digest the truth please.Recommend
@M. Ali: Pakistani are large hearted and so only they tie the sucide jacket on the heart.Recommend
Why can’t we remove these foreign nationals from Pakistan?Recommend
This is crazy,mad and sick.
The people in power and members of civil society have to get this whole thing in sharp focus and permanently eliminate this madness. This in my view should be top priority .Recommend
@Aroob: Becuase if we did amost 90% of Pakistanis will have to leave. It doesnt seem too good for us =(Recommend
@TBM
Yeah it is mentally prepare you for another raise in Military budget, June is near.
The increase will be in the name of fighting terrorists in Fata.
“What is the point of publishing this secret information for the masses…??? …
Do we have any sense?…”Recommend
@Ravi: You miss the point Ravi. Anyone can refer to themselves as a Muslim, a Hindu, a Christian or a Jew – or whatever. But the fact that you practise what is against the teachings of your religion automatically castes you outside the teachings and practises of that religion, and does not entitle you to refer to yourself as a person who considers he/she belongs to that particular religion. There are good Hindus and bad Hindus. Good Jews and bad Jews, just as there are good and bad Muslims.
Surely you know that well enough to understand what Iffo means when she says they are not Muslims.
So what is the point in responding with a silly statement such as the one you have written?
It serves no purpose except to malign another person and her religion, when there is no need to do that at all, unless it merely serves to give you some sense of malicious satisfaction.
Give us a break, and get over your complex.
The same goes for those of you who were ignorant enough to have recommended Ravi’s views.
Shame on you all for endorsing stupidity.Recommend
The extremism, intolerance and terrorism that has taken strong hold on Pakistan has its roots in the way the state has brainwashed the Pakistani citizen for the past six decades through institutionalized teaching of intolerance and bigotry. Everyone wants to blame the madrassahs to be the source of the extremism problems, but it goes much deeper than that. Just take a look at what is being taught in public and private schools. The school books are full of racial, religious and political bigotry and intolerance against non-muslims. Every Pakistani child grows up with these intolerant teachings and revisionist history. This has been going on for four generations now. It is not a surprise that intolerance and bigotry has now taken very deep roots in Pakistani society.
A very radical change of national ethos is needed to root out the hold of extremism on the society and reorient the minds toward a more tolerant and broader view of the world. Liberal voices in Pakistan must begin to be heard and contemplated upon. Pakistanis should look inwards and come out of their denial and victimhood. A soul searching must be done to determine right national priorities and a bold new progressive direction must be taken. The prevailing idea of security state must be changed to one of a well-fare state that has the citizen’s right of equality, social justice and economic well-being as the central national goals.
On another related front, Pakistanis should ask themselves if perpetual confrontational posture against Afghanistan and India is in the longer term interests of the country since such geopolitical calculation has led Pakistan to create and nurture Islamic terrorism as a tool of foreign policy. Has this approach helped the Pakistani nation and the people in the real progressive sense? Recommend
@Ravi:
The trainers are Muslims funded by USA,India and Israel.Who else is going to benefit from destabilized Pakistan??? Recommend
defenitely, his statement is self-explanatory, we should understand the conspiracy of RAW, CIA, MOSAD etc behind this, they use innocent muslim for killing of muslims.Recommend
@omar yusaf:
There are good Hindus and bad Hindus. Good Jews and bad Jews, just as there are good and bad Muslims.
Totally agree. But the difference is that there are more good hindus, christians and jews than bad hindus, christians and jews.
But opposite is true is the case of muslims which resembles from their deeds (not words).
It serves no purpose except to malign another person and her religion, when there is no need to do that at all, unless it merely serves to give you some sense of malicious satisfaction.
Really?????
Do you think your religion has any reputation left to malign??????
Give us a break, and get over your complex.
That’s what i say you need to break away from the path that is pushing muslims and pakistan in a bottomless pit.
And did you just write Complex ???
Well i am professionally an engineer what complex can i have with professional jihadis????
Shame on you all for endorsing stupidity.
Shame on people who are still doing blah blah like hindu, jew, chiristian, zionist, raw, cia conspiracy on this comment section….. Recommend
Versan
have you got your children trained from pakistan? do you have any example?Recommend
@Irfan ali:
The problem started when the “youth” awoke. They were better off sleeping. When youth wake up, they’ll demand jobs. Where are the jobs? When the jobs are not there, they will get into these sorts of things. Recommend
There are so many sane minds discussing world peace and I therefore thought of tossing a question hoping to get an answer.
Who is refusing to fence and mine the Pak-Afghan border and why? If you could find the answer, which I am sure you great minds would, please also elaborate if the reasons were good enough to justify deaths to thousands of people including Pakistan, US, Nato and Afghan forces.
At least these lives might mean something to you after proposing carpet bombing of people forced to host terrorist from across the globe to assist international terrorists in Cold War.Recommend
if RAW was so effective like ISI they have already killed
**mansoor asar jaise muhamed
Hanief saeed
Syed salauddin
Jud office
Dawood Ibrahim etc
Ilyas kashmri**
We indian know RAW is a impotant organisationRecommend
Sajid ali : You must have woken up from your sleep not to have read this article fully. Pl go thru. The confession of this boy stated there are some from Punjab province as well. And the trainees include all the foreigners which implies that a majority of them are pakistani children.
Immediate name that comes to mind is one Mr Kasab of Faisalkot, My children getting trained in Pakistan, that will be the nightmare for every parent except Pakistanis and to a majority well meaning Pakistanis as well.. Recommend
@Naveed Ahmad Butt:
RAW / CIA / MOSSAD are doing a fantastic job. Where’s your ISI! I guess sleeping in lap of RAW / CIA / MOSSAD. Not even Allah can save the pakis now!Recommend
double card trick played by our beloved and honoured Pak army:
1. cash in billions of $ from the US by putting on a act oft “fighting terrorists”
2. support the groups with cash, weapons, informations, supply and special protection
cost = Pak is slumping from bad to worse and it is becoming a security state drowning in chaos
BUT as the army officials don’t consider civilians as that important… we should not worry about collateral damage!Recommend
@ Vasan. Clean your indian garden first. What India has been doing in Bangladesh, in Sri Lanka and Afghanistan? Recommend
Interviewer: How did 9/11 happen?
Typical Pakistani Youth: 9/11 was organised by CIA/Mossad/Bilderberg group to malign the Muslim world, to invade Iraq/Afghanistan and to destroy the Ummah
Interviewer: Who is responsible for the frequent suicide bombings in Pakistan?
Typical Pakistani Youth: The suicide bombers are not Muslims. Because, muslims will never kill other muslims. These attacks are being done by RAW/CIA/Mossad to discredit the youth of Pakistan. Also, the attack of Sri Lankan cricketers was done by RAW, hundred per cent we are all sure about it.
Interviewer: Then what do you say about 26/11 Mumbai attacks?
Typical Pakistani Youth: Mumbai attacks were done by RAW/Shiv Sena with the help of Bollywood and Jewish VFX experts from Hollywood to bring bad name to the Land of the Pure. They use this excuse to stop our cricket players from playing in IPL. That’s why India is not able to provide proof that terrorists from Pak have done it.
Interviewer: What you have to say about our cricket players who bring bad name to us?
Typical Pakistani Youth: No,no, our cricket players are true muslims and they are innocent. Amir, Butt and Asif were trapped by BCCI and English board to prevent our team from becoming the No 1 team in the world. Also, to prevent them playing in IPL.
Interviewer: How do we become the greatest country on earth that once we were?
Typical Pakistani Youth: All ills facing our great country is due to US. Throw out CIA/Blackwater/Other US companies along with the corrupt politicians and bring back honest army people to run our country. If United States stops meddling in our affairs, the country will regain its past glory!!
Throw a stone and it will hit a Typical Pakistani Youth holding the above views.
The saddest thing is — from a Typical Pakistani Youth to becoming a Radicalised Pakistani Youth — is just a few sermons away !!Recommend
Blame it on the US, complain about the situation, eat some Nihari, go to sleep. Recommend
@hassan:
Great ! still the minority minister’s seat in govt is vacant – kisi ki himmat he nahi hai , minorities are unsafe , hindus are getting raped , killed and if the hindu is lucky he only gets kidnapped and is released when hefty ransome is paidRecommend
Maitre:
I must thank you for acknowledging India as a garden compared to the wilderness of Pakistan where wild beasts roam around killing all and sundry, I do accept Gardens require cleaning and periodically we try to do that , They can never be picture perfect for ever.
FYI these comments and messages are in connection with this news article only, We can have a discussion on India’s activities in Afganistan (Road building etc), bangladesh (recent power plants agreement) and Srilanka (finishing off LTTE and participating in reconstruction of Srilanka) etc some other time. Hope you will come prepared.Recommend
The kid was a RAW and MOSSAD agent.Recommend
@Iffo:
I really do not understand the meaning of the statement ” The persons training those bombers are not Muslim” ; kindly clarify.Recommend
@Noor:
Great piece of original thinking dear Brother. You seem to be copying Lion Zaid Hamid thought for thought. God can also not save such a QUAM. Recommend
@ABDV:
Then what about the dream of borderless Muslim Ummah ?Recommend
People Can Change Every Thing ——— Fighting terrorism is responsibility of every citizen ———- Convince parents to save their children from ruthless exploiters of Islam’s Sacred belief about Heaven and Jehad ——— Government alone can not do every thing —- Peoples have to participate ———– use mosques, drawing room and street discussions to spread the message that suicide is Haram and Terrorism is prohibited in IslamRecommend
14 years and blew peacefull people up? He should be juged like a man, according to islam and law.
We need to warn our children against the dangers and we should fight people that will ruin our families and country.Recommend
Lets pledge today to educate at least one set of parents to be careful about their children and save them from falling in the hands of terrorists who are disguised in the sacred outlook of muslims ———- Lets spread the word that “Killing of any human being irrespective of his faith is strictly prohibited in Holy Quran”Recommend