Peshawar school Attack was planned near Pak-Afghan border in early Dec: Report

TTP chief Mullah Fazlullah supervised the meeting in which the attack was planned


Muhammad Irfan December 17, 2014

PESHAWAR: The attack on Army Public School in Peshawar, which took the lives of 141 people including 132 children, had been planned in the first week of December in an area near the Pakistan-Afghanistan border by the Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP), a police report available with The Express Tribune revealed.

Police's Counter Terrorism Department Peshawar in its initial investigation report reveals that the attack had been planned during a meeting of the TTP central leadership, headed by TTP chief Mullah Fazlullah along with militants from Bajaur, Mohmand, and Orakzai agencies of FATA in the first week of December.

According to the document, seven suicide bombers were trained for this purpose at Sheen Drang Markaz in Bara, Khyber Agency.

The investigation report identified the seven suicide bombers as Abuzar, Umar, Imran, Yousaf, Uzair, Qari and Chamnay.

Further investigations of the incident are underway.

COMMENTS (6)

Rao | 9 years ago | Reply

Impossible. Such a planning can be planned and executed only by non-state hands ie Mossad or Raw.

BlackHat | 9 years ago | Reply

@Saleem: Surely, they have a complete inventory list of all the strategic assets along with mugshots, cell phone numbers, addresses along with other pertinent personal information, including those boys who ferry chai. You just can't run a training camp anywhere without the authorities knowing about it. Imagine what it takes to run a camp? Supplies of food, grocery, clothes, beds, pillows, sheets, fuel, arms and ammunition, transport... Local people will always notice lots of newcomers coming to gone area. Military training is noisy. On top of it, they would have infiltrated all these groups with informers.

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