Bomber identified
Photograph and ID card copy of Badshah Khan, one of the alleged suicide bombers of the Karachi attack released.
KARACHI:
Investigators have revealed the identity of one of the suicide bombers who attacked the Abdullah Shah Ghazi shrine, killing nine people last week.
The Crime Investigation Department (CID) of the city police has issued a copy of the National Identity Card of the bomber.
The attacker has been identified as Badshah Khan, son of Muhammad Shafi, a resident of the Ladha area of South Waziristan. Khan belongs to the Mehsud tribe.
Earlier, the Tehreek-i-Taliban Pakistan had claimed responsibility for the blast. Interior Minister Rehman Malik had also claimed that one of the suicide bombers belonged to South Waziristan and was a Mehsud.
However, law enforcement agencies say the identity of the second suicide bomber has yet to be ascertained.
A day after the blast, police had claimed to have identified a suicide bomber as Naseebullah and had taken his family into custody. However, the family was later released when Naseebullah returned home alive.
Published in The Express Tribune, October 14th, 2010.
Investigators have revealed the identity of one of the suicide bombers who attacked the Abdullah Shah Ghazi shrine, killing nine people last week.
The Crime Investigation Department (CID) of the city police has issued a copy of the National Identity Card of the bomber.
The attacker has been identified as Badshah Khan, son of Muhammad Shafi, a resident of the Ladha area of South Waziristan. Khan belongs to the Mehsud tribe.
Earlier, the Tehreek-i-Taliban Pakistan had claimed responsibility for the blast. Interior Minister Rehman Malik had also claimed that one of the suicide bombers belonged to South Waziristan and was a Mehsud.
However, law enforcement agencies say the identity of the second suicide bomber has yet to be ascertained.
A day after the blast, police had claimed to have identified a suicide bomber as Naseebullah and had taken his family into custody. However, the family was later released when Naseebullah returned home alive.
Published in The Express Tribune, October 14th, 2010.