THE Karachi police and intelligence officials have shown unusual promptness in identifying and arresting the accused of the bomb blast before a KFC outlet in the city the other day and blamed the Balochistan Liberation Army for masterminding it. While holding no brief for the BLA, we believe that justice calls for a thorough investigation before pointing a finger at anyone.
Already, there is another version about who would have carried out the deadly blast. As the Baloch unity has rightly emphasised there is a need for proper inquiry into the incident. Baloch people have been victimized for long time ever since the artificial creation of this country and illegal occupation of Baloch home land and now throwing the Pakistani created terrorists net works blame on the heads of Baloch people in front of the world is totally unfair and unjustified.
People of Balochistan, who are struggling to get their genuine rights from Punjabi Military rulers of Pakistan, would never launch any such types attack against their civilian targets.
Such cowardly acts of explosions in various parts of the country, for the purpose of creating terror among peaceful citizens of various provinces other than Punjabi military targets, is the solid proof that they have lost all their battle in Balochistan; as such they are applying their most cowardly acts of plotting to show the picture of Baloch justified and human rights struggle as a terrorist act and get the support of people of Sindh and NWFP; as well as their foreign masters.
We Baloch Unity not only condemn all such terrorists’ acts against any person, persons, party and civic establishment in any part of the country. But equally appeal to all democratic forces in and outside Pakistan to support the struggle of People of Balochistan, who are waging a war against Punjabi military hegemony, which would guarantee the restoration of the usurped rights of down-trodden people of Balochistan, Sindh, NWFP and Siraikistan, in the long run. We ask every one of us must condemn Pakistani intelligent services and agencies for blasting these explosions and causing heavy casualties in men and materials, which would never achieve their wicked purpose of creating popular supports against Baloch struggle.
Three confess bombing Karachi
* Police detain dozen suspects after blast
KARACHI: Three men from the Balochistan Liberation Army (BLA) have confessed to involvement in a car bomb blast near a US fast food chain outlet that killed three people, a court official said.
An anti-terrorism court had remanded the men in custody for seven days while investigations continued into Tuesday’s bombing of a branch of the KFC chain in Karachi, said public prosecutor Habib Ahmed.
Police said the trio belong to the BLA, which is engaged in a low-level insurgency in Balochistan. A purported representative of the group had claimed responsibility hours after the blast, which killed two security guards and a passer-by, saying the attack had been targeted at Pakistan Petroleum Limited offices near the KFC. The state-run company operates a large natural gas field in impoverished Balochistan, whose tribes believe they should be getting a greater share of profits from the province’s natural wealth.
"The accused during interrogation confessed their role in the bombing," Ahmed said, adding that "many of their accomplices are still in hiding".
Chief police investigator Manzoor Mughal said the trio, all aged in their 30s, were arrested while trying to escape in a car. They included the "gang leader", identified as Aziz Khan.
Police recovered two Kalashnikovs, two grenades and three kilogrammes of explosive material from a building they used as a hideout, he said.
"They were working for the so-called BLA," he said. "Several of their accomplices, who are hiding in Karachi, will also be arrested shortly," he said, stressing the "BLA was behind the blast".
The accused, their faces covered, were brought to the anti-terrorism court under heavy security. Journalists were not allowed into the courtroom.
A senior government official said earlier on Thursday that about a dozen people had been detained for interrogation after the blast.
Separately, police have rounded up a dozen suspects after the car bomb, an official said Thursday. A policeman was among those arrested, the senior official told said.
"Police have detained around one dozen people during raids in different parts of the city following a lead provided by a key suspect," he said. "They are being interrogated by a special investigation team."
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