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| Peshawar police chief says suicide bombers' group identified |
| 2007-02-16 |
| City Police Chief Abdul Majeed Marwat said on Thursday that his department had traced a suicide bombers’ group with links to suicide blasts in Islamabad, Peshawar and Dera Ismail Khan. “The investigation teams have obtained sufficient evidence of the group’s involvement in suicide blasts,” Marwat told a press conference at Police Lines, but he refused to identify the group, saying that reporters knew that the “group belongs to another territory”. Police sources told Daily Times that the group belonged to Waziristan and therefore was not in the precincts of the Peshawar Police. Operations SSP Iftikhar Khan said that intelligence agencies had informed police that a group of suicide bombers had entered Peshawar. “The police is on alert and we have improved security in sensitive areas including the residences of the governor and the chief minister,” he added. Marwat said the Frontier police lacked defensive equipment and anti-terrorism training and was incapable of stopping suicide attacks. “The intelligence agencies are responsible for foiling suicide blasts because the police’s duty is to stop social crimes only,” Marwat said, adding that suicide bombers were targeting police and army personnel to press the government. He said the government should provide the NWFP police with modern equipment so that the force could focus on anti-terrorism training. Marwat said that every citizen should respect the law and asked District Nazim Haji Ghulam Ali and other nazims to remove sirens and VIP number plates from their vehicles or face disciplinary action. |
| Posted by:Fred |