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Second Musharraf Suicide Bomber an Afghan Fighter
Agencies, Arab News
ISLAMABAD, 30 December 2003 — Investigators have identified the second suicide bomber involved in the Christmas Day attack on Pakistani President Pervez Musharraf as an Afghan fighter, news reports said yesterday.
Hazir Sultan, 42, from the Panjshir region of Afghanistan, belonged to the resistance group “Afghan Jihad”, the newspaper The News and its television channel Geo quoted intelligence sources as saying.
Earlier, Mohammad Jameel, reportedly a “religious fanatic” from Pakistan-controlled part of Kashmir, was identified as the other suicide bomber. He is suspected to have links with the Jaish Mohammad group, active in the Indian-administered part of disputed Kashmir.
Jameel, 31, a resident of Rawalakot town, had joined Islamic extremists three years ago after being thrown out by his family, according to press reports.
The two suicide bombers had tried to ram explosives-laden vans into Musharraf’s car within a span of few seconds at almost the same spot in the garrison city of Rawalpindi where the Pakistani leader escaped another attempt on his life on December 14.
Pakistan Denies Ex-PMs Drawn Into Iran Nuclear Probe
The Pakistan government yesterday dismissed a local newspaper report that the UN nuclear agency wanted to grill two former prime ministers about the leaking of nuclear information to Iran.
The Foreign Ministry reiterated that a “very small number” of Pakistani nuclear scientists were being investigated about the allegations.
But Pakistan had no information that the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) wanted to question former Premiers Benazir Bhutto and Nawaz Sharif, foreign office spokesman Masood Khan told reporters.
“We haven’t heard anything about it because this is hearsay,” Khan said.
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