Pakistan rescues 200 kids being trained as suicide bombers

About 200 boys, some as young as six years,were rescued by Pakistani security forces from Taliban camps in the Swat valley where they were being "brainwashed" and trained to become suicide bombers.

The troops have kept the children in Mardan area where they will go through "mental rehabilitation" with the help of psychiatrists so that they can return to a normal life. The boys, whose age ranges between 6 and 13 years, have been so thoroughly "brainwashed" that they consider all others as "infidels", senior North West Frontier Province Minister Bashir Bilour was quoted as telling the Geo News channel. "These children have brainwashed in a way that now they even want to kill their own parents," he said, adding, however they were not administered any drugs.

Bilour said some children were pleased when they were handed over to their parents. But, a few days later, the parents came back with complaints that the boys are now threatening to "kill them", the report said.

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