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'Pakistanis carrying out suicide bombings for money'
Islamabad, Apr 6 (PTI) For the first time, a top ranking
official here has candidly admitted that the Pakistanis were
carrying out suicide strikes against their own countrymen and
said that these attacks were the job of people "on hire".
Interior Ministry chief Rehman Malik said the bombings
were the handiwork of people who were hired for paltry sums.
He was echoing media reports earlier that there were
spots in NWFP where people were on hire for carrying out
suicide bombings and suicide jackets were on sale.
"The price of a suicide bomber is from Rs 0.5 million to
Rs 1.5 million while the family of the bomber gets Rs 0.5
million," Malik, who was visiting the injured of Sunday's
Chakwal suicide attack at Benazir Bhutto Hospital in
Rawalpindi, told the media.
Describing such people as "enemies of Pakistan", he said
they want to destabilise the country and cautioned the people
to be alert to foil their nefarious designs, the News said.
Meanwhile, addressing a ceremony at the Rangers
Headquarter in Sialkot, he said Pakistan was the worst victim
of terrorism. He said that the international community must
cooperate with Pakistan to disrupt, dismantle and defeat
terrorists.
Malik said the government was mobilising all resources
to cope with the current wave of terrorism and suicide attacks
in the country. He said providing protection to the life and
property of the people was a top priority for the government.
Meanwhile, hundreds of people Monday gathered in a
sports field near the federal capital to mourn the victims of
yesterday's suicide bombing.
Fearful that the gathering could itself be a target,
the mourners were made to walk through metal detectors and
were physically checked before being let into the soccer
ground for the prayers.
Such extraordinary steps had to be taken as terrorists
have often in the past targeted funeral congregations in the
violence which has now spread far beyond the
Pakistan-Afghanistan border to the heartland of PakiStan. PTI
RHL
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official here has candidly admitted that the Pakistanis were
carrying out suicide strikes against their own countrymen and
said that these attacks were the job of people "on hire".
Interior Ministry chief Rehman Malik said the bombings
were the handiwork of people who were hired for paltry sums.
He was echoing media reports earlier that there were
spots in NWFP where people were on hire for carrying out
suicide bombings and suicide jackets were on sale.
"The price of a suicide bomber is from Rs 0.5 million to
Rs 1.5 million while the family of the bomber gets Rs 0.5
million," Malik, who was visiting the injured of Sunday's
Chakwal suicide attack at Benazir Bhutto Hospital in
Rawalpindi, told the media.
Describing such people as "enemies of Pakistan", he said
they want to destabilise the country and cautioned the people
to be alert to foil their nefarious designs, the News said.
Meanwhile, addressing a ceremony at the Rangers
Headquarter in Sialkot, he said Pakistan was the worst victim
of terrorism. He said that the international community must
cooperate with Pakistan to disrupt, dismantle and defeat
terrorists.
Malik said the government was mobilising all resources
to cope with the current wave of terrorism and suicide attacks
in the country. He said providing protection to the life and
property of the people was a top priority for the government.
Meanwhile, hundreds of people Monday gathered in a
sports field near the federal capital to mourn the victims of
yesterday's suicide bombing.
Fearful that the gathering could itself be a target,
the mourners were made to walk through metal detectors and
were physically checked before being let into the soccer
ground for the prayers.
Such extraordinary steps had to be taken as terrorists
have often in the past targeted funeral congregations in the
violence which has now spread far beyond the
Pakistan-Afghanistan border to the heartland of PakiStan. PTI
RHL
PMR
NNNN
