Pakistan government has sounded a red alert in the wake of reports about presence of 600 suicide bombers within the limits of national capital and asked security personnel to avoid gathering in groups and not to wear uniform in public.
Pakistan federal capital is likely to suffer from more suicide bombings as around 600 suicide bombers are hiding in madrassas and mosques within and around the limits of Islamabad and Rawalpindi, Daily Times quoted officials as saying.
Most of these suicide bombers were believed to be those who went missing after the crackdown on Lal Masjid and the boys and girls madrasas attached to it.
"Around 600 students of Jamia Hafsa and Jamia Fareedia have not returned to their homes after the Lal Masjid operation. These are the people called 'missing students' and they are hiding in madrassas and mosques in and around the two cities. These are walking bombs and are determined to blow themselves up any time, anywhere," officials, involved in the ongoing investigation of suicide blasts in the country, said.
According to reports, one such suicide bomber blew himself up among a group of policemen on Friday killing 14 people, including eight policemen, and wounding over 60.
The presence of the bombers was revealed by the sacked chief cleric of Lal Masjid Abdul Aziz, who is in custody.
"During interrogation, Aziz said five to six hundred students of the two madrassas had been trained, equipped and brainwashed to carry out suicide attacks. These students left the madrassa according to a plan before the final operation against the mosque was launched," the official said.
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