Recently the Cabinet of Ministers of Afghanistan held a special meeting devoted to the issue of Afghan students getting involved in illegal activities during educational training in Pakistan.
The issue made it to the agenda following the recent police operation, during which 25 young people were prevented from getting sent to Pakistani suicide bombers camps.
Smugglers were planning to take children abroad under the pretext of providing them with religious education in the Pakistani city of Quetta, which is situated near the border with Afghanistan.
Refugees from Afghanistan, especially children, often fall victim to such cells as well.
The recent police raid operation in Afghanistan revealed that the children were young, ranging from age 6 to 14 and they were mostly orphans.
Eyewitnesses that were interviewed by Sputnik explained that Pakistani religious schools are explicit camps for the suicide army to prepare attacks, since poverty and the absence of a unified educational program in Afghanistan and the existence of unlicensed “madrassas” [religious schools] create the preconditions for recruiting young people to the ranks of militants in the territory of neighboring Pakistan.
Hadidzhe Asghar, a resident of Quetta, told Sputnik that all schools in the region are under the control of the Saudis.
In these schools, children are trained extremism and jihadism and it is here that future Taliban fighters are made.
One of the clergymen, who wished to remain anonymous, said that these camps are a special project of the British and their allies: the Pakistani ISI [intelligence agency] and Pervez Musharraf [former President of Pakistan].
Moreover, these schools show photographs of towns and villages that have been attacked by the US Air Force and they use these photos to anger the pupils and make them take revenge by fighting the perpetrators and taking martyrdom.
Homa Alizoy, a lawyer and judge on matters of minor children, spoke to Sputnik in an interview about who is profiting from such ‘madrassas.’
“Many families, because of lack of money send their children to these free of cost Pakistani madrassas with the hope that children will be able to get an education and will also be well fed,” Alizoy said.
She further said that a huge role in financing is played by the Saudis and sometimes children are deliberately kidnapped and sent to these schools.
According to Alizoy many such schools operate in the city of Peshawar. To prevent this disaster, the Afghan government needs to work out not just a mechanism of measures, but to open more schools in the territory of Afghanistan itself with the appropriate opportunities, to attract budget and funding.
“In addition, the Organization of Hajj and pilgrims must actively join the work. One of the big problems is the rehabilitation of these children. Unfortunately, in the state there are no centers for caring for such children or institutes for psychological rehabilitation of victims of propaganda in these camps,” the lawyer said.
She further said that many, when they reach adulthood, either fall into prisons or get caught up with militants and terrorists.
