KOHAT, Dec 18: A team of the Federal Investigation Agency (FIA) officials arrived here from Islamabad to start looking into Monday’s suicide attack which claimed the lives of 12 under-training soldiers in the Kohat Cantonment, officials said on Tuesday.
The head of the Kohat Bureau of Investigation, Faiz Moham-mad Khattak, told Dawn that the team would visit the combined military hospital to examine the remains of the ‘suicide bomber’ and if needed would send samples for DNA tests.
He said that a joint team comprising the FIA officials, military police, intelligence sleuths and police would first confirm whether the body assumed to be that of the suspect was really that of a suicide bomber before going ahead with further investigations.
Unless the ‘training centres’ of suicide bombers were not closed it would be impossible to stop such attacks.
He apprehended that the people behind suicide attacks had trained a lot of people which was evident from the series of suicide bombings carried out by young boys and middleaged men throughout the country.
COMPENSATION: Federal Minister for Human Rights Ansar Burni announced on Tuesday a compensation of Rs10,000 each for the families of the 12 under-training soldiers who were killed in the Monday’s suicide attack.
He denounced the killing of innocent people and blamed the increasing militancy on extremist elements.
Talking to Dawn here on Tuesday, he talked about the militants, saying that if they had any grudge against the United States or anybody else it did not give them the right to kill the security personnel or innocent people.
He said that Islam did not allow suicide and those training the people for suicide bombings were not serving any cause of their religion’s but maligning Islam.
He said that it was the responsibility of Islamic scholars and the leaders of religious parties to educate the people that Islam was a religion of peace and harmony.
