Ahmadiyya Times | News Staff |
Source & Credit: Pak Tribune
Friday, June 4, 2010 | Lahore
ISLAMABAD: A surviving attacker of the Lahore carnage, Abdullah alias Muhammad, has disclosed that he was misled into believing that Ahmedis were involved in drawing blasphemous caricatures of the Holy Prophet (SAW) so their bloodshed was a great service to Islam. An official of Lahore police privy to the interrogation told our sources that Abdullah was fed the idea by his masterminds that Ahmedis, being a driving force behind the caricature controversy, deserved exemplary punishment and he together with his comrades were sent on this mission. The attacker belongs to a militant group affiliated with al-Qaeda. A member of the Ahmedi community, when contacted and told about Abdullah’s statement, repudiated the claim as a total farce, saying they believed in the Prophethood of Hazrat Muhammad (SAW).
Abdullah was trained in Miramshah in North Waziristan and is a resident of that area and his seminary-mate in Karachi took him to the training camp. One of his brothers is already stationed there. Muaz, another surviving attacker of Qadianis’ Model Town worship place, was also trained in Miramshah. However, his background details are not available so far as he is still under medical treatment after being badly wounded during the attack. He is a resident of Muzaffargarh. Abdullah’s socio-economic profile is revealing as it brings under spotlight the background of majority of the suicide bombers who become convenient target of the jihadi entrepreneurs. With some exceptions like Ibrar, a chemical engineer who first masterminded Marriott Hotel attack and then actively participated in GHQ attack and got killed, the bombers mostly hail from humble backgrounds.
A teenager, Abdullah’s family migrated to Quetta Town of Karachi, some 15-20 years back. The family of 25 members is making both ends meet in poverty, as their monthly income does not exceed Rs9,000. Abdullah has six brothers and three sisters.
Abdullah’s father, Attaullah Chachar, is suffering from multiple diseases like tuberculosis and diabetes and receives Rs3,000 a month from an Islamic charity, the surviving attacker told the investigators. Abdullah’s elder brother, a prayer leader in a Karachi mosque, also earns Rs3,000 in terms of cash. What he receives in kind is not sufficient enough to feed the family in a proper manner. The prayer leader’s wife, is a source of another Rs3,000 that she earns by teaching female students who would come to mosque for learning the holy Quran. Abdullah himself was enrolled in a seminary and used to get pocket money of Rs200 a week. He never went to a school.
According to a Lahore-based police investigator, pocket money and good food often becomes a source of attraction for the would-be bombers in training camps as they are properly fed there and given a fat traveling allowance if they want to visit family during training in tribal area. Although the interrogators said that majority of the bombers in past were Pushtun, belonging to Mehsud tribe but the training camps also receive non-Pushtun recruits. Aitzaz Shah, who is behind the bars in Benazir Bhutto assassination case, was non-Pushtun, said a counter-terrorism expert. “Most suicide bombers are recruited from kinship or friendship network.”
A spokesman of Lahore police previously told media that the younger brother of Abdullah worked for a TTP terrorist Badar Mansoor adding that another terrorist, Muneeb, had trained Abdullah for the terrorist activity. Badar who previously had been fighting in Afghanistan has now got training of gun shooting inside Pakistan. He is a leading figure of Harkatul Mujahideen, an al-Qaeda affiliate.
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