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| March 21, 2007 | Wednesday | Rabi-ul-Awwal 1, 1428 |
Baitullah linked to suicide attacks, says FIA official
PESHAWAR, March 20: Director General FIA Tariq Pervez has said that interrogation of arrested terrorists across the country indicates that Baitullah Mehsud, a local Taliban leader in South Waziristan agency, is linked to incidents of suicide blasts in various parts of the country.
“We have reached the conclusion after interrogating terrorists that Baitullah Mehsud is involved in suicide blasts in Islamabad, Peshawar, Quetta and Dera Ismail Khan,” he told reporters at FIA’s regional headquarters on Tuesday.
To assist the local police and other law-enforcement agencies, he said that the Special Investigation Group (SIG) had been tasked to keep vigilance on terrorists’ movements besides investigating bomb blast incidents at their own level.
Similarly, interrogating arrested terrorists SIG’s investigators have found links with Waziristan Agency in the recent suicide attacks across the country.
About human trafficking, he said that it has become a big issue in the NWFP and those involved in this heinous crime tried to send people, mostly unemployed, to Iran via Balochistan province and onward to Muscat, adding the FIA was involved in the inhuman practice.
He said that those who try to go abroad by illegal means were mostly from the NWFP, including areas like Mardan, Charsadda, Swabi, Bannu and Kohat.
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