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Manhunt launched for 7 Waziri suicide bombers

By Shahzad Malik

ISLAMABAD: An extensive manhunt has been launched for a group of seven suicide bombers who left North Waziristan a few days ago to target government interests across the country.

Sources link the group to the recent suicide attacks on army and law enforcement personnel in tribal areas bordering Afghanistan and NWFP, which have left over 45 dead and many injured. They say 15 teams, comprising officials of law enforcement and intelligence agencies, are conducting the manhunt.

Daily Times has learnt that intelligence agencies informed the Interior Ministry that more than 60 militants recently met at a Tang Killi madrassa in the North Waziristan’s Dattakhel tehsil. They decided to not carry out terrorist acts in North Waziristan and to drive out militants from the Agency to “earn the government’s goodwill”. At the same time, they decided to continue militant activities in other parts of the country and tasked their elder, Maulvi Ghanamzar, with preparing seven to eight individuals from Dattakhel for suicide missions. Militants also denounced the Lal Masjid operation and decided to step up terrorist activities across the country.

Responding to the intelligence agencies’ warning, the Interior Ministry directed Home Secretaries of all provinces to go ‘all-out’ to arrest the suicide bombers.

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