Karachi Bomb Blasts: Why, Who and What Next?
Karachi went through a Bloody Monday when series of 7 blasts ripped through ethnic localities, killing 2 and injuring more than 50 people. Here is how it happened:
- Blast 1 & 2: First in a pile of garbage and second at road side (footpath) in Banaras area.
- Blast 3: Explosion ripped through a mini truck in North Nazimabad area of Shahra-e-Noor Jehan near Sohail mosque.
- Blast 4: In a motor cycle in Qasba colony area.
- Blast 5: Bicycle blast in Manghopir.
- Blast 6 & 7: Pak colony
The 7 blasts covered an area of 5 Kilometers in span of 1 hour.
Looking around for the motive, lets see what happened a day before the blasts ripped through Karachi:
- Bomb blast in Islamabad that left 18 dead (out of which 14 were policemen) and more than 50 injured.
- President Pervez Musharraf left Karachi after watching the final of Asia Cup at National Stadium, Karachi.
- MQM chief Altaf Hussain warned about Talibanization of Sindh.
- 40 people, including India’s military attaché in Kabul, were killed when a powerful car bomb blasted outside India’s embassy in Kabul.
The blasts may have occurred to spread panic in areas of Karachi where people of certain ethnicity dwell. The Government, as usual, has sprung into action and along with ’strong condemnation’ of the act, investigation committees are formed and severe punishments are promised for the culprits. However, we know that this is going to be another closed case in the series of such incidents Karachities experienced before.
May Allah have mercy on us!
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July 8th, 2008 22:44 GMT
Even a layman like me can guess who carried out these bombings. It wasn’t the Taliban or other religious outfit. That means it was the party which terrorized Karachi in the eighties and nineties.
July 9th, 2008 00:47 GMT
I doubt it to be them. They have too much at stake and anything wayward will pull them down to 90’s, which they won’t want now.
I see strong Kabul connection here.