SARGODHA—Police has arrested five members of banned organizations here on Tuesday for providing training and collecting funds for the militants.
According to sources the arrests took place on a tip off by police informers.
Sargodha is considered a breeding ground for the militants. On August 24, in two raids six militants were arrested. Police said in Sargodha, the link to the Taliban is Mohammed Tayyab, who heads the Punjabi Taliban cell in Miram Shah and had close ties with Mahsud.
Sargodha police chief in an interview with an American newspaper said. Tayyab has been accused of engineering the November 2007 suicide bombing attack on a Pakistani air force bus in Sargodha that killed eight people.
He said after several raids, Tayyab and his militant group are keeping a lower profile in Miram Shah, but they still tap Sargodha for fresh recruits and train them in Waziristan, Anwar said.
A primary conduit for recruitment was a madrasa, run by the father of four brothers who were arrested by Sargodha police in August, accused of planning an attack on the cellphone tower.
Police said likely recruits at the madrasas are between the age of 14 and 15 years without strong links to family.
—Online
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