new Delhi: Pakistani security agencies captured one terrorist alive involved in the attack on the police academy near Lahore and have been claiming that he is a resident of Afghanistan.
Investigating agencies also suspect that the Taliban was involved in the daring attack on the academy in which at least 22 people including many policemen were killed and nearly 100 others injured.
"The person is Afghani and cannot speak Urdu. He is a resident of Afghanistan. Some of his associates have been identified. He has come from South Waziristan. Planning for the attack happened in South Waziristan," said Interior Ministry Advisor to Prime Minister Rehman Malik.
Pakistani media reports identified the attacker as Hizratullah from Paktika province in Afghanistan. The reports said he came to Lahore from Miranshah in Waziristan and he had an arms licence presumably from Pakistan.
Hizratullah's interrogation could throw up more details as to where he trained and who trained him, where their arms and ammunition were procured from, why the police academy was the target and what was the larger motive behind the daring attack.
Malik had earlier indicated the Lashkar-e-Jhangvi was a suspect. He also suspected the Lashkar-e-Toiba as being behind the attack and even referred to a foreign hand meaning India.
But there seems little doubt the Taliban is the main suspect. But the only problem is it is this very group the government backed by the army, has signed peace deals with.
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