Madrassa cleric arrested for turning teenage boys into suicide bombers in Pak

Islamabad, July 13 (ANI): Security officials have arrested a cleric of a madrassa in Nurpur Thal village of Buland District on charges of imparting terror training to teenage boys and converting them into suicide bombers.

According to sources, a madrassah organizer, Muhammed Rafeeq brainwashed youths and then send them to terror training camps based in the tribal areas.

Rafeeq used video CD's of suicide attacks for training the recruits, police said.

He had trained a 17-year old man named Usman, who blew himself up near the Afghan border killing several people last year, it said.

A case under the anti-Terror Act has been registered against the seminary head. (ANI)