Look at that kid. These terrorists are using kids like him to commit mass murders like today. Anyone who still thinks they have anything to do with Islam should get their heads check.
Government official Tariq Hayat, left, seen with 14-year-old alleged would-be suicide bomber Salman Khan, second left, arrested in Torkham.—AP
](http://www.dawn.com/wps/wcm/connect/dawn-content-library/dawn/news/pakistan/nwfp/helicopters-target-militant-positions-in-khyber-agency--szh) LANDI KOTAL: Security forces at Torkhum arrested on Friday a would-be suicide bomber along with a suicide jacket and a hand grenade, officials said.
Hailing from the Zakhakhel tribe of Landi Kotal tehsil, the teenage suicide bomber Sulaiman son of Laeeq Khan was later presented before the media at Khyber House, the office of the Khyber Agency Political Agent.
Political Agent Tariq Hayat told journalists that Sulaiman was given training by the activists of Tehrik-e-Taliban in Afghanistan and was send to Pakistan via the Torkhum border to carry out a suicide attack.
The boy, he said was not yet assigned any target before he was nabbed.
The would-be suicide bomber was carrying a jacket filled with seven to eight kilograms of explosives along with a hand grenade.
Can anyone tell me why all the jihadi videos have the worst soundtrack? It seems like something you would hear in hell. I know this is pashto, but the arab ones sound the same.
On his face is an angelic smile, in his pocket a blood-stained 50-rupee note. Ishaq Khan, a 12-year-old schoolboy, was given the money – equivalent to just 40p – to carry a bag to a spot in a busy bazaar in Kohat, a town in the North West Frontier Province of Pakistan.
As he walked away, the bag exploded, throwing him to the ground with a shattered foot and leaving shoppers dead and wounded all around him.
In a macabre new tactic, Taliban militants have begun paying children to plant lethal bombs in Pakistani cities. Ishaq, who comes from a poor family that barely survives on the money his father earns from house-painting jobs, had been working at the Orakzai bus stop of the city’s main Terah Bazaar, earning a few rupees a day by helping people to load lorries and buses.
Two weeks ago a man with a moustache but no beard approached him and offered him the note to leave a blue plastic bag in a crowded area between several shops.
“I was excited to get 50 rupees,” said Ishaq. “That’s more than I earn the whole week.”
He picked up the bag and pocketed the money, enjoying the feel of it as he thought about whether he might spend it on a rare treat such as an ice-cold Coca-Cola, or take it home to his mother. The bag was of plastic sacking of the type used to carry sugar, and was not heavy.
“I put it down, turned back and had not walked 20 steps when there was a big blast and I was thrown,” he said. “I don’t remember what happened then.”
When he woke up he was in Kohat hospital with the other victims of the blast. The 50-rupee note was still in his pocket, covered in blood.
When he learnt that three people had been killed and 23 injured he was horrified. “I never imagined it was a bomb,” he said, his eyes filling with tears. “I move bags for people all day.”
Doctors at the hospital say his left foot has multiple fractures and the heel is completely crushed. Yesterday he had the first in a number of operations needed it if he is to walk again. His back is peppered with shrapnel from the bomb but his family has no money for painkillers.
The hospital has run short of blood supplies because of the bomb, so local medical students rallied round to donate some.
The Kohat bombing was one of a succession of deadly attacks since the Pakistan military launched an offensive against the Taliban in the Swat Valley region. The Taliban has vowed to carry out bombings in Pakistani cities in retaliation. There have been at least 16 attacks since the operation started in late April and more than 100 people have been killed.
Most of the attacks have been in Lahore and Peshawar. The latter city’s only big hotel, the Pearl Continental, was blown up on Tuesday. Militants fired on the hotel guards, drove a lorry laden with half a ton of explosives up to the buildings and detonated it, killing 18 people, including two United Nations officials.
God that is the vilest pile of rubbish i have read here.
Tell that to 1000s of victims of terrorism. Tell that to mother who lost son, a wife who lost husband, a father who lost a daughter of nation that is being destroyed by fascists Islamists salvages. I bet they would disagree with you. If they could, they would deliver justice in their on way against these barbarians & their defenders.
^unless they uniformly choose you as their spokeperson that is just a claim on your behalf.anyone who suggests that punishment is either riding on overdose of emotion or has lost any shred of humanity what so ever.
Killing is the only way get rid of this cancer. There is no other way. In fact, every homicidal bomber's immediate family should be killed in front of camera and it should be shown on national tv.
Yep. TTP leaders and their supporters should be killed. Those who are unfortunate enough and are captured, they should be skinned alive so no man alive ever dares to commit atrocities that these barbaric animals and subhuman creatures commit.
TTP and their masters do not show mercy and kill indiscriminately, they should not get any back. They want shariah, we should give them "shariah." This Takfiri fitna must be eliminated.
^unless they uniformly choose you as their spokeperson that is just a claim on your behalf.anyone who suggests that punishment is either riding on overdose of emotion or has lost any shred of humanity what so ever.
No they haven't, but the point is deterrent against homicidal barbarians. You can't kill a suicide bomber, but you sure can kill his family. Families of these bombers get money from terrorists for their kids blowing up other peoples kids. Beside, collective punishment is legal under frontier crime laws. This would just be taking one step forward.
BTW, likes of you are quick to condemn this as brutality, but I have yet to see you condemning Taliban savagery. If we're going to defeat terrorists we have to act like terrorists too. All arrested terrorist must be beheaded on camera...just like what Taliban do to their captives.
i am sorry i donot think acting like terrorist will bring peace. Terror only brings misery and perhaps more terror. If you haev yet to see me condemn any savagery of any sort feel free to dig up my posts. But also please feel free to point any comment where i have applauded or advocated barbarity. Punishing people and families because one of them is invovled in a violent crime is inhumane,indecent and appalling.
^^ in that case I'm sure you have plan to deal with homicidal killers. Perhaps you should enlighten us about what deterrenst can be used against these killers?
like all the countries in the world, use your intelligence services, police, armies, detective, privates to deal with the issue rather than calling for the persecution of the families. develop a justise system to deal with suspects and culprits rather than saying ah we are the bigger and meaner terrorists. i didnt devise this 'plan', its common knowledge and sounds a sight better than your lovely strategy. but thankyou nonetheless.