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Suicide bomber identified: Police

Police claim to have identified one of the Abdullah Shah Gazi suicide bombers as Naseebullah.

Express October 08, 2010

KARACHI: Karachi police claim they have identified one of the two suspected suicide bombers responsible for the blasts at Abdullah Shah Ghazi shrine in Karachi. Police have said the bomber has been identified as Naseebullah and claim that he belongs to Dir.

According to police reports the bomber was identified by his relatives who were taken into custody on Thursday night following the twin blasts that killed eight people and injured 65 others.

Investigations into the twin blasts have been underway since Thursday night. TPO Clifton Tariq Dharijo said thorough investigations are being conducted at the shrine.

Police sources informed Express News that a family had come forth saying their teenaged child had been missing from home for the past five days. Police had said they would be conducting DNA tests to ascertain whether the child was the bomber.

Investigations revealed that the two bombers were most likely teenaged boys. A team headed by Azad Khan Tanoli has been conducting the investigations for the FIA and Saud Mirza is heading the CID investigation.

TPO Clifton says the Auqaf Department responsible for security at the shrine had ignored repeated requests to install CCTV cameras at the venue.

Security beefed up in Karachi

Rangers stepped up patrols in Karachi to try and prevent violence after angry mobs rampaged through the city in the aftermath of Thursday's suicide attack.

Mobs took to the streets after the attack, firing bullets, setting tires on fire and torching at least four buses. Most traffic remains off the road today to avoid new possible outbursts of violence.

Meanwhile, the government has ordered closure of all tombs and mausoleums in the city for public security for an indefinite time. Sindh Home Minister Dr Zulfiqar Mirza said the decision was taken considering the level of threat to the holy places. The tombs would be reopened after the implementation of a proper security plan to avoid such incident in the future.

COMMENTS (12)

proud to be nagarian | 14 years ago | Reply Now it has become a common phenomena to carry out suicide attacks on mosques,Imambargahs and on Holy shrines across pakistan.Those who directly involved in such despicable attempts, interms of financial or blowing themselves up, doesn't think of humanity.Who they may be?,every one knows.But the thing is to express, overtly without any fear and tension, the background of these elements who carrying such henious actions against innocent citizens of pakistan. These elements who were slaughtering our army "jawan" in swat and waziristan.It is fact that the same idealogy is working behind these attacks.So there is need to keep tab on them every time and punish them strictly.

A Suhail | 14 years ago | Reply @Pakistan1. There are other muslim countries like Turkey, Indonesia and Malaysia who are democratic. Why are they progressing by leaps and bounds and Allah's wrath is not upon them? @Mateen. I recall there were suicides attacks happening before the drone attacks started. How do you know it will stop if the drone attack stops? And if I read into your logic correctly, you mean to day these suicides are revenge for the drone attacks so why are innocent Muslims are being killed by suicides bombers when it's the drones operated by Americans are blasting houses in waziristan? So your logic is if American kill my brother I will go to Karachi and kill someone else's brother to avenge myself. ?

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Syed A. Mateen | 14 years ago | Reply The day drone attacks will stop killing innocent people in Pakistan, suicide attacks will also come to halt. Thanks to General (R) Musharraf who sided with US after 9/11 attacks and have made the lives of Pakistani people miserable. One can imagine if General (R) Pervez Musharraf will again President of Pakistan what will happen to Pakistanis? The present government also does not have the courage to ask US to stop drone attacks on Pakistan. Pakistan has become a rolling stone in the hands of US government. Despite thousands of people have been killed and injured, public and private properties are destroyed, neither US or Pakistani government has realised the fact that the most important task is to get hold of Osama Bin Laden and his accomplices which needs precision calculations and not just the drone attacks that are killing innocent people and in retaliation suicide bombers are killing innocent people in the country.

Rashid Saleem | 14 years ago | Reply This act was indeed a horrific example of how these barbaric terrorists are trying to demonize the true spirit of Islam and Sufism. Yet we have people who defend them. Shameless!

Sohrab | 14 years ago | Reply Why did the police take the family members in custody????? Will other families come forward to report their missing teenagers after this????? This family had come forward on their own which most probably meant that they did not know of their son's involvement in this crime. The brainless and clueless Pakistani police commits these stupidities with impunity and no one asking questions. On the other hand, when suicide bombers are traced down in rare cases, it should be investigated and determined if their family members knew of their involvement in these criminal activities and prosecuted for witholding information from the authorities and causing loss of life and limb.

Pakistan1 | 14 years ago | Reply @Talha the pleasure of Allah is leaving us and He is sending His Torment towards us and yet foolish people do not realize it. It is because you have prefered a system (democracy) which is in direct conflict with Shariah and Islam. Even I was brain washed to the point that I started believing that democracy is Islamic but no it is not. It is a system rivalling that of Allah.

Asadullah | 14 years ago | Reply @ Talha: and the biggest joke is that they denounce their involvement in any such attack...everybody knows wahhabi/salafi/ deobandi ideology is against shrines and they openly call everyone who visits as Mushrik (polytheist)!...May Allah save us from this wahhabi/salafi fitna AAMEEN

The Mahindas | 14 years ago | Reply we tooo are responsible for labeling our selves a/c to these school of thoughts instead of being SUNNA and Quran Practising Muslim !

Yasir | 14 years ago | Reply Every one , let's open our eyes, rather blaming different religious groups and blaming taliban for every act, why don't we understand that there are forces who doesn't want to see Pakistan prosperous. What India and Israil are doing in Afghanistan? Why we have been divided into different ethnic & religious groups. Where we are divided on the basis of Sindhi, Mohajir, Punjabi, pathan, blaoach etc. When our enemy attacks he doesn’t distinguish in any sense. Please be positive and let’s eliminate those black sheep’s among us who provoke us to have identities other than Muslim or Pakistani. Stop saying you do it for me , let’s play our individual roles and see what we can personally do for the betterment rather than waiting for others to come and help us. We are proud Nation and this is time to prove that we really are. We are proud of our elders who MADE Pakistan, let our next generation to be proud of us who SAVED Pakistan.

Talha | 14 years ago | Reply Wahabi/Salafi and Debandi extremist ideology is destroying our nation.

The Mahindas | 14 years ago | Reply This is what the forces who are doing these things want from us to kill and argue ourselve among muslim school of thoughts so that they can overtake our country in cover of security ...just as changez khan did in baghdad..

Rehan Qadri | 14 years ago | Reply It's time for Pro-Taliban clerics like Mufti Naeem to come forward and say that bomber is a Black water agent and not one of their operatives.

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