RAWALPINDI, Feb 16: A teenager arrested for his role in the murder of former prime minister Benazir Bhutto admitted in his statement before a special judicial magistrate here on Saturday that he had got training for carrying out suicide bombing and was ready to blow himself up.

Aitzaz Shah said in his statement before Magistrate Chaudhry Toufiq Ahmed that he was a Hafiz-i-Quran and studied at a madressah in his native Mansehra city. According to sources, the boy said he had developed fascination with Jihad in Karachi and gone to Waziristan to get training as a suicide bomber.

The judge sent him to Adiala central jail on judicial remand for 14 days. He will be presented in an anti-terrorism court on March 1 with his accomplice Sher Zaman.

A joint investigation team presented Sher Zaman before ATC 1 Judge Chaudhry Habibur Rehman and submitted that it had completed interrogation of the accused. The judge sent the accused to the jail for 14 days on judicial remand.

Sher Zaman, like four other suspects — Aitzaz, Hasnain, Rafaqat and Abdul Rasheed -- did not confess to his alleged role of a facilitator to the man who carried out the gun and suicide attack on Ms Bhutto.