... formerly NWFP, still Terrorism Central...
Minister for Information Mian Iftikhar Hussain has said that gunnies are drugging young boys to use them as jacket wallahs.
Talking to journalists at University of Beautiful Downtown Peshawar
...capital of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (formerly known as the North-West Frontier Province), administrative and economic hub for the Federally Administered Tribal Areas of Pakistan. Peshawar is situated near the eastern end of the Khyber Pass, convenient to the Pak-Afghan border. Peshawar has evolved into one of Pakistan's most ethnically and linguistically diverse cities, which means lots of gunfire.
(UoP) here on Monday, he said that five young boys, who were recently tossed in the slammer
Keep yer hands where we can see 'em, if yez please!
in Lakki Marwat and Peshawar, were also drugged by gunnies to prepare them for suicide kabooms.
The minister visited UoP to attend the inaugural ceremony of Seminar Hall at Pashto Academy as a chief guest.
“Nowadays gunnies kidnap boys to turn them into suicide bombers. For this they even drug the boys when they are about to be used for suicide attacks,” he said.
Mr Hussain said infighting had started between terrorist groups in
Wazoo tribal agencies. The gunnies were opposing and killing each other, he said. He added that the terrorists, who had fled Pakistain, were hiding in Kunar and Nuristan provinces of Afghanistan but NATO...the North Atlantic Treaty Organization. Originally it was a mutual defense pact directed against an expansionist Soviet Union. In later years it evolved into a mechanism for picking the American pocket while criticizing the cut of the American pants...
forces were taking action against them.
Earlier while addressing the ceremony, the minister said that the last three years were tough for Pashto Academy. Efforts were made to close it in order to damage Pashto language, however, the government frustrated all such designs, he said.
UoP Vice-chancellor Dr Qibla Ayaz, Pashto Academy Chairperson Dr Salma Shaheen and others academicians also addressed the ceremony.
Peshawar University Teachers Association president Jamil Ahmad Chitrali, teachers and a large number of students were also present on the occasion. The minister directed the quarters concerned to submit a written report about the needs of the academy so that necessary action could be taken in that regard.
He said that provincial government included all mother tongues of the province as compulsory subject in the syllabus from primary to higher secondary level.