ஜிகாதுக்காக சிறுவர்கள் கடத்தல் பாகிஸ்தான் பெற்றோர் புகார்

பாகிஸ்தானின் வடமேற்கு மாகாணத்தில் பள்ளி சிறுவர்கள் ஏராளமானவர்கள் ஜிகாதி தீவிரவாதிகளால் கடத்தப்பட்டு ஜிகாதுக்கு உபயோகப்படுத்தப்பட்டிருக்கிறார்கள் என்று பெற்றோர் புகார் செய்திருக்கிறார்கள்.

தீவிரவாத பயிற்சி முகாம்களிலிருந்து குழந்தைகளை மீட்ட பெற்றோர் மாவட்ட போலீஸில் புகார் செய்திருக்கிறார்கள்.


Pakistan Militants Kidnapping School Children for Jihad
District council demands action against Jihadi outfits

Ghafar Ali Khan (ghaffar)
Published 2007-05-31 15:35 (KST)


PESHAWAR -- Parents in the northern districts of Upper Dir of Pakistan's North West Frontier Province (NWFP) accused Jihad outfits for abducting their children from schools for jihad.

A doctor and a radio mechanic accused militants for kidnapping their children to train them for jihad in the training camps. They later recovered their children from the militants and brought the issue into the notice of the district council.

Islamic religious groups have great influence in the NWFP northern districts from where around 10,000 volunteers on the call of Tehrik-e-Nifaz-e-Muhammadia (TNSM), a religious organization working for establishment of Sharia in the area, Chief Sufi Muhammad went for jihad against the U.S. when the latter attacked Afghanistan.

Many of these volunteers were killed or captured by the U.S. and Afghan forces during the fight. Some of them were released from the Northern Alliance forces in Afghanistan by paying hefty amount while the whereabouts of a large number of these activists are still unknown. The TNSM leader came back to Pakistan but was arrested by security forces and he is still in jail on charges of instigating thousands of persons for jihad in Afghanistan.

A meeting of the district council of Upper Dir condemned the act of the militants of sending school boys for jihadi training without the consent of their parents. The council asked the provincial government to take stern action against the militants involved in the kidnapping of school students.

A member of the council, Hasham Hussain, raised the issue of schoolchildren's abduction by jihadi organizations from a private school and told the council that parents were unaware that jihadis had taken their children for jihad. Two students of a private school, one the son of a doctor and the other the son of a radio mechanic, were abducted for jihad training without their parents' consent.

"Schoolchildren from private schools are taken for jihad without their parents' permission... this practice is un-Islamic, unlawful and immoral. The district administration knows that jihadis are ruining children’s lives in the name of jihad but no action is being taken," Hussain was quoted as saying.

District Nazim Sahibzada Tariqullah said the parents of the two children should have report the incident to the police and inform him, the district coordination officer and senior police officials.

During the discussion some member of the council warned NGOs working in the district to abandon their activities and leave the area. They accused NGOs of spreading obscenity and vulgarity instead of carrying out developmental work.