Investigators have traced the masterminds of a suicide attack on the shrine of Hazrat Bari Imam killing 20 people and injuring several others, sources told Daily Times on Monday. Sources said that an investigation team by the Punjab Crime Investigation Department Police, Federal Investigation Agency and the Intelligence Bureau found that Asif Chhota and Bara Usman from the Qari Group, a dissident of the banned religious outfit Lashker-e-Jhangvi, masterminded the attack.
| Oh, gee. Somebody boomed a Shiite shrine. After intense investigation, it's deteermined it was Lashkar e-Jhangvi. WHO THE HELL DID YOU THINK IT WAS? |
They said the two were included in the most-wanted list and the Punjab Police had put Rs 1 million head money on each.
| Yeah. That tactic certainly works well, doesn't it? I'll bet the tips are just oozing in... |
The investigation team also traced the calls made to the cell phones of Asif Chhota and Bara Usman during the explosion at the Bari Imam shrine, sources said. One investigation team member told Daily Times that Bara Usman said that Usman bought explosive material from the tribal area and made a bomb within two hours. The member, who asked not to be named, said that Asif and Usman were in Islamabad two weeks before the Bari Imam incident and instigated suicide bomber Mohsin Ali to launch the attack. Sources said the two had also planned suicide attacks on various Shia mosques on the outskirts of Islamabad, sources said.
| Most of us are capable of pulling off, at most, one suicide attack... |
The investigation showed that there was disagreement between the supporters of the two factions of the defunct Tehrik-e-Nifaz-e-Fiqh Jafria group — one headed by Hamid Musvi and the other by Allama Sajid Naqvi. Sources said that the two groups wanted to take control of the Bari Imam shrine.
| But neither of them boomed it. |
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