 Investigating teams have been questioning the two suspects of the Lashkar-i-Jhangvi to identify the suicide bomber who had blown himself up at the Imam Bari Shrine on Friday.
The two, Khawaja Muhammad Ibrahim and Aamir Shehzad, are reported to be members of a suicidal gang headed by Hafiz Yasin and are suspected to be part of the Imam Bari bomb blast. "We are expecting information from the suspects regarding the terrorists involved in the suicidal attack," a police official said on Sunday.
| "Hey! We wuz gonna commit suicide, but we weren't expectin' no pliers!" |
Sikandar Hayat, the district police officer, told Daily Times that the two on drilling have confessed to have had schemed to murder Allama Sajjid Ali Naqvi, the chief of Tehrik-i-Jafaria Pakistan, in October 2004. The man behind the conspiracy design was Hafiz Yasin alias Mufti Suhail, the two arrested told police, maintaining that Javed alias Jabbar, from Karachi, Muhammad Irfan alias Bobi, Aamir Shehzad, Khawaja Muhammad Ibrahim and Asif had connived the blast in Sialkot as revenge against the Rasheedabad blow up in Multan. Mr Hayat said the two accused had also owned up to plotting the explosion saying their ringleader, Hafiz Yasin, had sent Javed and Aamir for the purpose, but Aamir Shehzad chickened out at the last moment, while Javed entered the Imambargah as the suicide bomber. Shehzad possessed a press card of a weekly of Bahawalpur and had repeatedly visited the parliament along with Hafiz Muhammad Yasin and the group had also tried to attack the Shia processions on the Ramzan 21, Yum-i-Shahadat Hazrat Ali, Mr Hayat disclosed to reporters. |