PESHAWAR: Frontier Corps Khyber Pakhtunkhwa has arrested a suicide bomber in a major operation in South Waziristan. His confession has revealed an ongoing connection between the Afghan Taliban and Fitna al-Khawarij.
The arrested suicide bomber has been identified as Nematullah, son of Musa Jan, a resident of Kandahar province in Afghanistan and a student at the Johari Madrasa. During interrogation, Nematullah confessed that he had been mentally prepared by certain individuals at the madrasa who convinced him that jihad against the Pakistani army was permissible.
Nematullah stated that he gathered in Khost with approximately forty other youths, from where they all crossed into Pakistan through Chiwar. They eventually arrived at Lale Jhe, in the Burund area of South Waziristan, where a Taliban centre had been established.
The terrorist identified his commander as a man named Omar Hamas, who trained the youths in suicide attacks. Nematullah explained that although the usual training period lasted three months, he received only one week of instruction, during which he was taught how to carry out suicide attacks on vehicles and target military checkpoints and installations. He mentioned that the ages of those in his group typically ranged from eighteen to twenty-two years old.
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In his confession, Nematullah added that during training, upon hearing the call to prayer, he felt deep down that the Pakistani army was also Muslim, and that attacking them was forbidden in Islam.
