Two ex-terrorists who planned Sultan Park bombing in Male in September 2007 are to be sent to flood-stricken Pakistan with aid, the President's Office said today.
President Mohamed Nasheed recently pardoned the two men who set off an IED in Sultan Park injuring foreign tourists. The men who were serving a 15-year sentence are now free and their sentence will be waived off if they do not commit a crime within the next three years. The two men are Mohamed Sobah of Villimale, Landhooge, and Ahmed Naseer of Kanduhulhudhoo, Saadhunaa Manzil.
"Their dream is to reunite with their friends in Pakistan. After pardoning them the least we could do for them is to help them achieve that," said Mohamed Zuhair, the President's Press Secretary.
Several co-conspirators of the bombing fled from Maldives and are now living in Pakistan.
Sheikh Mohamed Shaheem Ali Saeed, the state minister for Islamic Ministry, said he welcomed this news. He said the donations Adhaalath Party has collected from Maldivians will also be sent to Pakistan with the two men. Shaheem did not say if he had rehabilitated the two ex-terrorists like he rehabilitated the prisoners from Guantanamo Bay.
Asked if there was any risk of the two men committing a crime in Pakistan, Zuhair said he felt there was no threat. "I am no bomb disposal expert. But there is 99% probability that a bomb will not explode in flood waters," Zuhair said.
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