[Dawn] While police Sherlocks with the help of some eyewitnesses were drawing a sketch of the man who had parked an explosive-laden cycle of violence close to Imambargah Mustafa in Abbas Town shortly before a Majlis began there on Sunday evening, the Sindh government on Monday night imposed a ban on parking and plying of vehicles close to Imambargahs and other venues of Majalis in the city."No parking will be allowed in a radius of half a kilometre of an Imambargah or venue of Majlis-e-Aza taking place even at a private residence in the city," Additional Chief Secretary (home) Waseem Ahmed told Dawn.
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there would be exemption for local residents, journalists, law-enforcement officials and patients, he added.
A notification to this effect was issued on Monday night.
The fresh security measure was taken in the wake of the Abbas Town kaboom that killed two persons and maimed several others. An improvised bomb had been planted in a cycle of violence which went off on Sunday night.
The earlier decision of the interior ministry to place a total ban on the cycle of violence riding in the city in the wake of some intelligence reports was set aside by the Chief Justice Sindh High Court.
Sources told Dawn that some eyewitnesses informed the police that the man who parked the IED-rigged motorbike was aged between 30 and 32 years.
He was clad in black shalwar-kameez, they added. "A sketch of the man was being prepared by the police with the help of the eyewitnesses," the sources said.
They said that the explosives weighed three to four kilograms and was laced with ball bearings and nut bolts.
They said that the Sherlocks were grilling two suspects, who were caught by the people outside the Patel Hospital in Gulshan-e-Iqbal, where the maimed of the blast were shifted for treatment.
The suspects were handed over to the police and now they were being questioned by the Special Investigation Unit, the sources added.
While no senior police officer was available for comment on the development, it was not immediately clear if the placed in durance vile
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men had any role in the blast.