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Blasts in Lahore and Peshawar
Fifteen people were injured when a bomb exploded in a garbage bin near a bus stop some 500 yards away from the Gaddafi Stadium on Ferozepur Road in Lahore on Friday. In another terrorism incident a few hours earlier in Peshawar, a suicide bomber killed himself in an attack on a police van and two policemen were injured.

The Lahore police had earlier claimed that two people were killed and another 13 were injured in the explosion, but retracted the statement later, saying that only 15 people were injured in the incident. Bomb Disposal Squad officials said the locally made bomb was a timed device and weighed one kilogramme. Punjab Additional IG Khawaja Khalid Farooq said the bomb was similar to the one that exploded in Liberty Market on August 29 in which four people were killed. Police cordoned off the site soon after the explosion and the injured people were admitted to Services Hospital and Jinnah Hospital where their condition is stated to be critical. Police has tightened security in the provincial capital to prevent more sabotage or terrorism.

Meanwhile, Peshawar Operations SSP Iftikhar Khan told Daily Times that 20-year-old Nadeem, an electrician by profession and resident of Pishtakhara Bala, detonated a bomb near a police van at Fayaz Khalil Shaheed Chowk at 7:30am. “Nadeem was killed in the attack and two policemen sitting in the vehicle were injured,” he said, adding that the police found an identity card from the spot, which identified Nadeem as the suicide bomber. “Nadeem’s father Sarzameen Khan and his brother have been arrested and handed over to the Crime Investigation Agency for interrogation,” Mazhar, duty officer at the Pishtakhara police station, told Daily Times.

Nadeem’s neighbour Ahmad Khan said that Nadeem was a hafiz-e-Quran and an emotional person. “He (Nadeem) always talked about jihad,” said Ahmad, adding that he did not know whether Nadeem was affiliated with any militant organisation. Sarzameen Khan, a labourer, told reporters that his son did not come home on Thursday night and he heard news of the explosion on Friday morning. Peshawar police chief Haji Habibur Rehman claimed that the policemen were not Nadeem’s target. “Nadeem attacked the police when they suspected his movement,” he said.
Posted by: Fred 2006-11-18
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