Pakistan's military has claimed that the religious school bombed on Monday in the country's tribal region had links with Jamaat-i-Islami (JI). Military officials told journalists on Wednesday that the seminary had all links with al Qaeda no:2 Aiman Al-Zwahiri and Afghan leader engineer Hekmatyar.
The October 30 attack in the town of Khar killed 82 people, including several children, though a military spokesman claimed the dead were all militants and denied any "collateral damage."
"We have evidences that Jamaat-i-Islami had hand in the madrassa," the officials said. They insisted that the religious seminary had also links with Hekmatyar and members of al Qaeda and Jamaat-i-Islami used to visit it. The military officials showed photographs to journalists with the help of solids. The photographs showed some 60 people in the school, and the officials claimed that they were getting training. There were no arms during the training and the officials said that they used to begin training at 4 am.