More than 500 students of several girls’ schools were poisoned in the capital Taloqan, Farkhar and Rostaq districts over the past month.
Mullah Mohammad Yaqub, Taliban’s appointed district chief for Khwaja Ghar, along with two others, including the woman, were detained in Kunduz, while three others arrested from a girls’ school on the outskirts of Taloqan, Mustafa Rasouli, the governor’s spokesman, told Pajhwok Afghan News.
He said another individual was also nabbed as he was trying to spray lethal chemical inside a classroom in the province.
The woman suspect was a Pakistani who had introduced herself as a doctor. Besides, the seven, five others were also picked up on Monday for investigations.
Meanwhile, a source from the National Directorate of Security (NDS), Afghan probe agency, said Pakistan’s Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI) was behind poisoning the students.
During a meeting with the provincial Ulama, tribal elders and influential people, officials had announced a $2,000 (200,000 afs) reward to capture those involved in the heinous crime.
An education ministry report revealed that more than 1,200 students, mostly girls, had been poisoned in Takhar, Khost, and Balkh and Bamyan provinces.
from Pajhwok
by Nadar Azizi on Jun 5, 2012 - 12:41
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