Khyber Pakhtunkhwa arrests Afghan militant who trained suicide bomber
Officials said the suspect, identified as Hikmatullah alias Hamza, served as a security guard for a militant commander named Mansoor.
Security forces and police arrested an Afghan militant in an intelligence-based operation, ARDC officials said at a press conference on Wednesday, Dunya News reported.
Additional Inspector General ARDC Abbas Ahsan named the suspect as Hikmatullah alias Hamza, son of Noor Muhammad, and said he was a native of Afghanistan's Paktia province.
Abbas Ahsan said the suspect had completed commando training in the Afghan army and had prepared a suicide bomber.
He also said the suspect had worked as a security guard for militant commander Mansoor.
A video statement by the suspect was released at the press conference.
In the video, the suspect said he was wounded during the Taliban era in Afghanistan, studied under a mufti for a year and then began teaching at a madrassa.
He later confessed in the video that he had prepared a man named Akrama for a suicide attack, after meeting him in Jalalabad.
The suspect also said he was being treated well in Pakistan.
Mehmood Jan Babar, the adviser to the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa government on information, told the same press conference that Afghan soil was being used for terrorism and that militants tried to exploit darkness to carry out attacks.
He said security forces were carrying out intensive operations against militants.
Pakistan has repeatedly accused militant groups operating from Afghan territory of carrying out attacks inside the country, particularly in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, and relations with the Taliban-led government in Kabul have been strained as a result.
