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| India-Pakistan |
| ‘Operation’ time |
| 2016-04-01 |
| [DAWN] IN the beginning this appeared to be a scoop. A national identity card was found at the site of the bomb kaboom in Gulshan-e-Iqbal in Lahore. It gave details about a young man hailing from Muzaffargarh. He was in his 20s, beard, a madressah education and all. He had been living in Ichra, Lahore, for some years. It was reported that he now gave religious lessons to children for a fee. There was something odd about this suspect. History tells us that jacket wallahs -- and it was quickly established that this was a suicide kaboom -- are usually brought from outside. Using an asset who had lived in a big city for many years to carry out a suicide kaboom would be a bit of a waste considering that he could be so much more usefully employed in other activities in future, such as facilitating a bomb assault. A suicide kaboom could best be left to an outsider tutored to take the plunge. Yet there was something about the revelation that made it credible: Muzaffargarh. Apparently the refrain about southern Punjab |
| Posted by:Fred |