A new, despicable low by Baloch separatists, particularly since the men ran away leaving the children to be arrested. The photo on the Dawn website of the children chained together under arrest is particularly sad, but the evidence that they were willingly involved in terrorism seems pretty solid.
Does anyone know if the Pakistan Penal code allows for children convicted of terrorism to be executed?
On the other hand, by Mao’s theories on guerilla warfare, this is a remarkably effective move by the separatists. Security forces will now be forced to treat children as potential threats, driving a wedge between Pakistan’s authority and the future adults of Balochistan.
Quetta police arrests children ‘involved in bombings’ | Pakistan | DAWN.COM
QUETTA: Police claimed to have busted a terrorist gang comprising of children who were allegedly involved in a series of bomb explosions in Quetta on Wednesday.
Capital City Police Officer, Zubair Mehmood said all accused were children and their ages were between 11 to 18 years.
“Police arrested 11 children after an encounter in suburbs of Quetta last night,” Mehmood told a hurriedly called press conference on Wednesday. He said all teenagers belong to extremely poor and down-trodden families.
He added that eight militants belonging to a Baloch separatists group managed to escape during the operation.
“Arrested teenagers have confessed to involvement in more than one dozen bomb explosions,” Mehmood said.
He said the teenagers were paid between 2000 to 5000 rupees per blast.
The CCPO stated that children were being used by terrorists to carry out terrorist incidents at crowded locations of Quetta city.
He said the children had admitted to their involvement in Mezan Chowk blast, which left more than a dozen people including three frontier corps personnel dead.
Mehmood said police seized anti personnel mines, explosives and other arms and ammunitions from children’s possessions.