Would-be suicide bomber sheds light on suspected Pakistani militant web in Balochistan

Usman

 

The older Mengal added that his son (Shafiq Mengal) had been active in supporting Pakistani security forces in battling Baluch separatist groups

Saad Sayeed and Syed Raza Hassan

SHIKARPUR, Pakistan – The confession of a Pakistani teenager who was captured moments before carrying out a suicide attack has given police a rare glimpse into a militant network they say is behind the recent surge in sectarian violence.

Usman’s testimony, a copy of which has been seen by Reuters, describes a web of radical seminaries and training and bomb making facilities stretching from eastern Afghanistan, where the young man was recruited, to Pakistan’s southern Sindh province.

Death Squad leader Shafeeq Mengal is Organizing ISIS in Balochistan

BALOCHISTAN: The Pakistani army’s patronized death squad leader Shafeeq Mengal has now been exposed as the trainer of suicide bombers belonging to the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria (ISIS).

The failed suicide bomber Usman who tried to blow himself during Eid-ul-Azha, on 13 September 2016 in Shikarpur, Sindh became the first suicide bomber to be apprehended alive in Sindh Pakistan.