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Taliban buys kids to be recruited as suicide bombers

by Suranee | June 19, 2009 at 07:44 am

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Rehman Malik, Pakistan's Interior Minister claims that the Taliban is paying Rs500,000 to Rs2.5 million for children to be recruited as suicide bombers.

ISLAMABAD: Interior Minister Rehman Malik has said the government is determined to continue the war against terrorism till the Taliban are flushed out of the country. He said that the terrorists were using children for their barbarous terrorist activities, adding a suicide bomber was paid Rs500,000 to Rs2.5 million from terrorist outfits.

The minister said not only are the terrorists targeting innocent people but they are also tarnishing the image of Islam and Pakistan

Terrorists are targeting innocent people and they have no link with Islam as they have tarnished the image of Islam and Pakistan, he added.

"Anti-state elements are buying children and making them suicide bombers," he said. He added, terrorists were using civilians as human shield.

The minister said if the terrorists do not surrender, they would be killed.