By DPA
Islamabad : At least 600 suicide bombers have been deployed in Pakistan’s southern port city of Karachi to target security forces, a media report said Monday.
Two arrested top militants from Jundullah (Army of God), a Pakistani Sunni Muslim organisation having links with the Al Qaeda terror network, told the police that most of the suicide bombers were former students of Islamabad’s radical Red Mosque, the Daily Times said.
In July 2007, Army commandos stormed the mosque and its adjoining Islamic seminary to end a siege by hundreds of armed militants entrenched there for a week. More than 110 people died in the raid while hundreds of rebels managed to flee.
“The 600 militants are mentally prepared and trained to carry out suicide attacks,” arrested Jundullah members Qasim Tori and Danish alias Talha told the police, the report said. The two were arrested last week after a shoot out with the police in Karachi.
The militants also reportedly confessed to robbing foreign banks to generate funds for the operations.
Pro-Taliban militants are blamed for killing more than 700 people in more than 50 suicide bombings across Pakistan in 2007, many of which were carried out in retaliation to the Red Mosque siege.