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India-Pakistan
Blast near Suparco bus in Karachi kills one, injures 15
2012-07-12
[Dawn] At least one person was killed and 15 others maimed as an kaboom destroyed a bus stand near Bloody Karachi
...formerly the capital of Pakistain, now merely its most important port and financial center. It may be the largest city in the world, with a population of 18 million, most of whom hate each other and many of whom are armed and dangerous...
's Moach Goth, Baldia Town area, DawnNews reported.

The target of the attack appeared to be a bus from the national space agency Suparco (Pakistain Space and Upper Atmosphere Research Commission) which was taking workers home, they said.

"It was a remote-controlled bomb and was planted on a bicycle. Looks like that bus was the target," said Sharfuddin Memon, home ministry front man of southern Sindh province.

The injured were transported to Murshid Hospital. Hospital sources confirmed one person was dead, while five of the maimed were at death's door.

Moach Goth is located in the suburbs of Bloody Karachi, near the Hub river Road, close to insurgency-hit Balochistan
...the Pak province bordering Kandahar and Uruzgun provinces in Afghanistan and Sistan Baluchistan in Iran. Its native Baloch propulation is being displaced by Pashtuns and Punjabis and they aren't happy about it...
province.

Senior police officer Akram Naeem said the motive of the attack was unclear but confirmed the bus was the target.
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