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| Malik says shrine attack linked to S. Waziristan |
| 2010-10-09 |
| [Dawn] Interior Minister Rehman Malik told the National Assembly on Friday that Thursday's suicide bomb attack on a religious shrine in Karachi had been found to have links with South Wazoo tribal area because, he said, a dead bomber had been identified as a member of the Taliban-infested region's Mehsud tribe. Referring to the attack on Abdullah Shah Ghazi shrine reportedly by two suspected boomers, Mr Malik said: "Its links have been traced to South Wazoo." But the minister talked of only one bomber who, he said, "is a Mehsud and is a resident of that area". He also said the government had "proofs" of how some "hostile forces' he did not name were trying to make followers of Brelvi and Deobandi schools of thought and Sunni and Shia sects to fight one another. MOURNING CALL: Life in Karachi came to a halt on Friday as roads remained deserted and businesses closed following a call given by different political and religious parties to mourn the deaths in the attacks on the shrine. The corpse count from the attack rose to nine as one more victim succumbed to wounds at a hospital. Investigators claimed to have found evidences showing that two boomers wearing suicide belts rather than jackets had carried out the attacks. The law-enforcement agencies also got suspicious of a family at the hospital and collected their DNA samples to find if they were related to one of the boomers. |
| Posted by:Fred |