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CTD police spot two ‘facilitators’ of Sehwan blast
[DAWN] KARACHI: Nearly two months after the deadly blast at the shrine of Sufi saint Hazrat Lal Shahbaz Qalandar, the Counter-Terrorism Department of police on Friday claimed to have made headway in its investigation by spotting two more suspects related to the attack.To review the progress of the suicide kaboom  case, the director general of Pakistain Rangers, Sindh, chaired a joint meeting of the law-enforcement agencies which chalked out a strategy to bring the findings before the public. The meeting, which was held at the Rangers’ headquarters, also reviewed the overall security situation.Sharing details of the ’important progress’ in the investigation, additional inspector general of police Dr Sanaullah Abbasi, who heads the CTD in Sindh, told the media at his office that two controllers of the suicide kaboom had visited the Qalandar’s shrine in Sehwan just a day before the blast and took several photographs of the place. The CTD chief said the two controllers of the suicide kaboom, which claimed the life of around 80 devotees on Feb 16, had finally been spotted in footage obtained with the help of 38 cameras installed at the shrine. The suspected jacket wallah and the two controllers could be seen conducting reconnaissance during their one-hour stay at the shrine on Feb 15, the additional IG said. The controllers also took several photos of the suspected bomber, perhaps in an attempt to hide their intention to photograph different portions of the shrine, the officer said. However, we can't all be heroes. Somebody has to sit on the curb and applaud when they go by... their activity indicated that all the three suspects who had entered the shrine separately knew each other or were linked, it emerged during the investigation. Sharing contents of the videos, the CTD chief said one of the controllers was seen wearing blue shalwar kameez while the other controller was clad in black shalwar kameez. The purported suicide bomber was also wearing blue-coloured clothes, he added. Prior to carrying out suicide kaboom, the bomber tried to enter the premises of the Sufi shrine through two other doors but he could not succeed. Posted by: Fred 2017-04-09 |
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