KARACHI (Staff Report) – Sindh Chief Minister Qaim Ali Shah on Tuesday claimed that the security agencies have arrested four suspects involved in Karachi bus attack.
Our sources have disclosed that the suspects arrested by law-enforcement agencies in connection with Karachi carnage were identified by eyewitnesses of the gruesome incident. The suspects have also confessed to the crime, the sources added.
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On Monday, Interior Minister Ch Nisar Ali Khan had confirmed that few of the attackers were identified and some arrests made.
Last Wednesday, at least 46 people – 25 men and 16 women – were killed in an attack on a bus that was carrying members of Ismaili community near Safoora Chowrangi in Gulistan-e-Jauhar area of Karachi.
Jundullah, a splinter group of the Tehreek-i-Taliban Pakistan (TTP), claimed responsibility for the attack.
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The Al Qaeda affiliated group that started off from South Waziristan has targeted Shias and foreign tourists in the past as well. In November last year, the group had pledged support to Islamic State (IS).
In the past, the proscribed group has claimed several attacks including a blast near the Wagah border in November 2014 and the July 2013 attack on the compound of Pakistan’s Inter Services Intelligence (ISI) in Sukkur. It has also claimed the several attacks on polio workers across the country.
