ISLAMABAD, April 5 Kyodo A man ar...

ISLAMABAD, April 5 Kyodo

A man arrested newly in eastern Afghanistan received military training at a terrorist training camp in either Afghanistan or Pakistan in novel months, Afghan Islamic Press (AIP) has reported, quoting the governor of Afghanistan's Paktika Province.

The Pakistan-based just discovereds agency quoted Gov. Gulab Mengal as saying that Janat Gul who was arrested during an attack Friday in succession the Paktika police headquarters, told interrogators he had shortly before complet five month of training in a terrorist camp. He was unable to say if the camp was located in Afghanistan or Pakistan.

Gul 20 a native of Sharana, capital of Paktika Province, was studying in a religious instruct when he was persuaded by way of an accomplice in Friday's attack to join the Taliban, the report said.

He was then blindfolded and taken forward a daylong journey in a vehicle to a camp where he saw a number of foreigners and was given strict military training, it said.

Gul told interrogators that he and a number of other commonalty at the camp were trained for attacks forward allied and Afghan troops and told that those dying in so operations would be martyred, the report said.

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