Report in Dawn, Dec 17th, 2020
KARACHI: Police’s Counter-Terrorism Department (CTD) on Wednesday lodged two separate cases of a cracker attack on a Rangers vehicle on University Road on Tuesday and an attempt to blow up the car of a Chinese national in Clifton and launched investigations into the incidents as an outlawed nationalist group had claimed responsibility for both attacks.
Four people, including two paramilitary soldiers, were injured in the cracker attack on a moving Rangers mobile near the Sheikh Zayed Islamic Centre on University Road a couple of hours after a Chinese man survived an attempt to blow up his vehicle in Clifton.
The Chinese national’s vehicle was rigged with a magnetic device containing explosive material.
The CTD has registered a case on the complaint of a Rangers official of attempted murder and terrorism.
An identical case has also been registered about the attempt on the life of the Chinese national in Clifton.
The officials said that some progress had been made in the case pertaining to attempted car bombing.
The CTD’s senior official, Raja Umer Khattab, said that the explosives recovered from the Chinese national’s car had been sent to a laboratory for examination. Similarly, the closed-circuit television camera footage obtained from the areas about motorcyclists who attached the explosive material to the car has also been sent to the lab to ascertain their identity.
Meanwhile, the police have also recorded a detailed statement of the Chinese national, who is the owner of a famous restaurant who stated that he has been living in Karachi since 1977 and also holds Canadian nationality.
He said that he had never received any threat or any extortion call. Mr Khattab added that the Chinese national had been living here since decades and he is “almost a Pakistani” who spoke Urdu fluently.
‘Hitman detained’
Meanwhile, the CTD claimed to have arrested an alleged hitman.
The CTD conducted an action at old Sabzi Mandi and detained a suspect, Adnan, alias Marwari. “The held suspect is a hitman belonging to the Muttahida Qaumi Movement-London,” according to the CTD SSP, Arif Aziz.
He was an absconder. “He had remained an in-charge of MQM’s death squad in Lyari,” claimed the CTD official. “During interrogation, the suspect disclosed killing 27 persons, including members of Sunni Tehreek.”
He told the investigators that his other accomplices were Asif Siddiqi, Pervez, Nadeem Khan, Nasir Khan, Faisal, alias Mullah, Amin, Munir and Shah Alam.
The CTD claimed that there were several cases registered against the held suspect at Nabi Bux, Kharadar, Eidgah, Garden and other police stations.
https://www.dawn.com/news/1596121/firs-filed-in-rangers-attack-chinese-car-bomb-incidents-in-karachi
