False alarm: Hoax ‘suicide jacket’ recovered

KARACHI: What the PIB police initially thought was a suicide jacket discarded at a graveyard turned out to be an empty jacket with a timer attached. According to the police, an unidentified caller tipped them off about a jacket lying at the Jhanday Shah graveyard. “A police mobile team was immediately dispatched to the spot and took the jacket thought to be laden with some form of an explosive device,” says officer Riaz. However, when the bomb disposal squad arrived, they found nothing other than a timer-like device with the jacket. No case was registered.

Published in The Express Tribune, October 28^th, 2011.