Looks like the Pakistani truncheons have been hard at work ...
An Islamic militant has confessed to having masterminded a pair of suicide attacks on Shia Muslims in Quetta, which resulted in the death of more than a hundred people, said a government lawyer on Wednesday. The attackers were suspected of being Lashkar-e-Jhangvi members, a domestic Sunni sectarian group linked with Al Qaeda. Lashkar-e-Jhangvi leader Dawood Badini was captured in Karachi on June 14 and was handed over to the Quetta police for further interrogation. Badini admitted to having planned the 2003 and 2004 Quetta attacks before a judge at a pre-trial hearing, said prosecutor Muzaffar Ahmed. According to law, the case will not be tried in an anti-terrorism court. |