Pakistan

Seraiki Taliban commander surrenders

Nadeem Khan May 18, 2010

SARGODHA: A top commander of the outlawed Tehreek-i-Taliban Seraiki Karwan Group has surrendered to police in Mianwali district of Punjab.

Hanif Gabool, a resident of Dera Ghazi Khan and an expert in making suicide jackets, had allegedly masterminded more than a dozen suicide attacks in different parts of the country. The regional police officer Sargodha, Mian Javed Islam, presented Gabool to the media where he confessed to his involvement in suicide attacks across the country. Gabool admitted that he was trained by Taliban militants in training camps in the Waziristan tribal region. He said his Seraiki Karwan group has more than 25 members.

He confessed that his organisation had carried out several terrorist attacks, including the suicide strike on Chakwal imambargah, attack on a security checkpoint in Qudratabad and the Khosa Market attack.Gabool said that he decided to surrender to police because he was feeling repentance for what he had done.

He also used the occasion to appeal to members of his organisation to renounce violence and surrender to authorities. Gabol also disclosed that they were also planning attacks on the DG Khan Cantt, DPO office Mianwali, DPO Office Dera Gazi Khan and four Imambargahs in Islamabad. He also revealed that they were financed by different outlawed organisations.

Published in the Express Tribune, May 18th, 2010.

COMMENTS (6)

Hira Mir | 14 years ago | Reply Taliban have declared war against the people of Pakistan. We must take measures to stop them from using our soil as militant playground. We support the security forces for hunting down of terrorist and securing our country.

ali hamdani | 14 years ago | Reply This is another success to the security forces of the country. Terrorism must be ended by all means such as military intensity and rehab of arrested men like him.

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wazdan | 14 years ago | Reply Taliban should realize that their enemy is America,NATOs.they should target Americans. but i don't think they have the mind or sympathy with Islam, What they have done or doing has made them infidels they are not from Islam.Pakistan should get to the roots.enter its informers in their centers pin point till the first to bring him to Justice.Requesting the Judiciary to to give concession's in their trials.

Ammar | 14 years ago | Reply @Realist, Do you think, people carrying out suicide attacks don’t write their death sentence? Is it sane to argue that people belonging to a place where people don't have basic necessities of life and send their children to Madaris with a view that they will at least get free food there, shall not engage in these activity? Realist???

Rehan Ali | 14 years ago | Reply @Realist: Complete agreement. It seems the war on terror needs to be widened and extended to southern Punjab. Unfortunately they haven't find a Sufi Muhammad to facilitate their agenda. Sufi Muhammad, the main culprit in Swat, is not tried for countless murders and mayhem that he ignited. In fact he is living in protected custody be it in a prison.

Realist | 14 years ago | Reply Oh Come on, if you guys want to do an operation in Southern Punjab, do it already. Why the need for such drama? Does the Government honestly want us to believe that some one would surrender admitting those crimes? That is like writing your own death sentence.

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