More than 5,000 children have been trained by Taleban for suicide bombing, a foreign news agency revealed this in a report. Intelligence estimates suggest more than 5,000 children have been trained by Taleban for deadly missions. Hundreds more children are still undergoing brainwashing at dozens of ‘suicide nurseries' run by the ethnic Pashtun Taleban commander, Mehsud. He heads Tehrik-e-Taleban Pakistan, an umbrella group for around a dozen Taleban outfits and has close links with Al- Qaeda. The notorious commander is believed to have been behind dozen suicide bombings across the country, including the one that killed former Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto in late 2007. According to a report, in January 2008, the military discovered a suicide nursery in the Spinkai area of South Waziristan. Four months later, the military showed video footage of a classroom where a masked teacher taught children how to carry out a suicide attack. The children, sitting in rows, were wearing white headbands inscribed with Quranic verses. Maj Gen Athar Abbas, the army's chief spokesman, said that soldiers had rounded up over 50 boys who were undergoing suicide attack training.
