Some shocking stuff coming out of Waziristan these days.
Waziristan teenager ‘kidnapped’ from Peshawar for suicide mission in Karachi
A teenager from South Waziristan has surfaced in Karachi with the extraordinary tale of being kidnapped by people who told him that they would make him carry out target killings and a suicide attack. Sadiqullah, who says he is 14, told Daily Times from the office of the Ansar Burney Welfare Trust Friday that he was kept in a comfortable place with many other boys and five girls. According to him, he is a class eight student who boards at a hostel of the Frontier Children Academy, Hayatabad, Peshawar. His father Sardar Ali Khan is a businessman from South Waziristan. He claims he was kidnapped from his hometown on January 16 and reached Karachi Thursday night where he turned up at the Karachi Press Club after spending three days with his kidnappers. According to Sadiqullah, on January 16 he fell sick and the hostel management sent him with a PTI teacher and a student to Liaquatabad Medical Complex to see a doctor. When he emerged from the complex after the check-up at 6:00 p.m., the teacher and student said that they would come back in a few minutes. They disappeared around the corner. While he waited from them on the street, a Pajero jeep hit him from behind. As soon as he fell down, two men alighted from the vehicle and offered to take him back to school. Sadiqullah said he lost consciousness after being seated in the vehicle and when he came to his senses, he found three more people next to him. When he asked what was happening one of them told him they were in Rawalpindi. He was blindfolded at dawn and the journey continued. After a long stretch, they stopped and he was informed that they were in Hyderabad. He was locked in a basement with five girls and many boys. They were provided food after which he was shown a CD in which he and his class fellow, Irfan, were filmed playing cricket in their academy. Irfan is the son of former MNA Maulana Noor Mohammad.
Sadiqullah asked the abductors how they managed to make a video of them while they were in the academy. He was told that they had been following him and his friend for several months and wanted them to perform some special task. They said that they would also bring Irfan in a few days and then they would have to commit several murders and a suicide attack. Sadiqullah said that it was impossible for him to kill anything. Upon this, the kidnappers signalled to the other boys in the room who started beating him. He said that he fought back and was injured. He was tied in a corner of the room and was told that he should think over his decision for which he was given 25 minutes. Eventually, Sadiqullah said he agreed to kill others in order to protect his own life. Following this, he was blindfolded again for the night and brought to Karachi. This time, he said there were eight or nine people in the jeep. He remembered that he was brought to an area where he felt there were a lot of people but he did not recognise the place as he had never been outside Peshawar. As they got out of the vehicle he was told to walk around to stretch his legs. While walking around he got the idea to attack his captors with stones but he was beaten back despite his strength. This skirmish attracted a crowd but no one helped him. Fortunately, his captors grew scared and fled. Sadiqullah then asked for help in broken Urdu and Pashto and people from the crowd suggested he should go to a police station. They sent him to one in a taxi. In the taxi, however, the driver advised him to avoid going to the police and said that he should go to the press club. He dropped Sadiqullah off at the KPC at around 9:00 pm from where the KPC administration handed him over to Ansar Burney Welfare Trust late Thursday night.
Trust vice chairman Sarim Burney told Daily Times that Sadiqullah could not identify his kidnappers. He said that they approached a Waziristan-based official Zulfiqar Khan. Khan contacted Sadiqullah’s uncle, an assistant commissioner income tax, who is under NIPA training in Karachi, and told him about the incident. He then contacted with the academy in Peshawar whose officials said that he was a runaway or bhagora. The academy had not informed the family about his disappearance. Khan told Daily Times that he was in contact with SP Hayatabad. He said that Irfan was also not safe.
http://www.dailytimes.com.pk/default.asp?page=2007\01\20\story_20-1-2007_pg12_3