Cracker blast outside Khuhro's house

Eyewitnesses say two unidentified men on bike lobbed low-intensity explosive

HYDERABAD:

The residence of Pakistan Peoples Party (PPP) Sindh and Sindh Assembly Public Accounts Committee Chairman Nisar Ahmed Khuhro, in Larkana district was attacked with a low intensity explosive device on Tuesday.

Larkana SSP Rohail Khoso informed the media that unidentified suspects threw a cracker and escaped on their motorbike. Khuhro was not in Larkana at the time of the incident.

According to the eyewitnesses, two men riding on a motorbike hurled the low intensity explosive towards the outer wall of Khuhro's residence. They told the police that one of them was wearing a mask while the face of the other one was partially covered.

The SSP apprised that evidence and accounts of the eyewitnesses have been collected. "It was a low intensity cracker," he said. The SSP added that CCTV footages from the area were also being reviewed.

A team of the bomb disposal squad later combed the surroundings of the residence. According to the Bomb Disposal Squad (BDS), explosives were packed in a box of talcum powder.

The Sindh Home Minister Zia Hassan Lanjar while taking notice of the incident directed SSP Larkana to submit a report. He also asked the cops to bring the culprits who attacked Khuhro's house to the book.

Meanwhile, in a statement in reaction to the incident the PPP leader said such cowardly attacks cannot stop him from his struggle for the people and for democracy. "I will keep struggling for democracy and I can't be frightened by such attacks."

He recalled that he had faced similar attacks in the 1990s when Jam Sadiq Ali was chief minister of the province. The police are yet to register an FIR of the attack. Such attacks in the province are often attributed to banned nationalist outfits which mostly target railway tracks and power pylons.