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Pakistani Taliban makes blast claim
Homegrown group says it was responsible for explosion in police facility in
Karachi that claimed at least 15 lives.
Last Modified: 12 Nov 2010 10:27 GMT
The Pakistani Taliban has claimed responsibility for a car bomb that destroyed
a police facility in Karachi, the country's biggest city, killing at least 17
people and wounding more than 100 others.
A group of fighters opened fire on Thursday on the building before detonating a
bomb at a Criminal Investigation Department (CID) compound, leaving a crater of
about 12 metres across and four metres deep in front of the site.
"We accept responsibility for this attack. They used to arrest and torture our
comrades here. We will target everyone who does this in the same way," Azam
Tariq, a Pakistani Taliban spokesman, told the AFP news agency from an
undisclosed location.
It was a rare attack on government security forces in Karachi, a politically
tense city of 16 million in the southern Sindh province - far removed from
Taliban strongholds in the northwest.
Witnesses and police said the CID building collapsed, trapping people under the
rubble.
Salahuddin Babar Khattak, the Sindh police chief, said the CID building was
used to hold anti-government fighters in custody. But no important suspect was
in detention at the time of the attack.
Al Jazeera's Kamal Hyder, reporting from Islamabad, said "the CID office is a
highly secured area that is frequented by a lot of important people".
Looking for clues
Al Jazeera's Imran Khan, reporting from Karachi on Friday, said that the blast
followed the launch of new army operations in Pakistan's northwest.
"Investigators will be looking for clues as to what type of explosive was
used," he said.
Karachi police had announced on Thursday the arrest of activists from
Lashkar-i-Jhangvi, a group linked to al-Qaeda.
Pakistani Taliban members too had been rounded up in recent weeks, Pakistani
officials said on Friday.
"We detained at least 10 suspects from the bomb site and the nearby
impoverished neighbourhoods," one security official told AFP on condition of
anonymity.
"We think they have links with [Pakistani Taliban] and Lashkar-i-Jhangvi. We
have arrested quite a large number of suspects in the last few months from
Karachi and it shows that these groups have penetrated into the city. It seems
as though these people have gained strength in Karachi."
Political violence
Around 3,800 people have been killed in suicide attacks and bombings, blamed on
homegrown Taliban and other armed groups across Pakistan, since government
troops stormed the Red Mosque in Islamabad three years ago.
The Karachi bombing came less than a week after a suicide bombing on a mosque
packed with worshippers killed 68 people in northwest Pakistan.
Karachi has already suffered its most serious bout of political violence in
years, with 85 people killed after a politician was shot dead in August.
The city is Pakistan's economic capital, home to its stock exchange and a
strategic port where Nato docks its supplies ready to be transported overland
to support the war in Afghanistan.
Source:
Al Jazeera and agencies
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