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| India-Pakistan |
| Possibility of 'insider involvement' traumatises Attock's Shadi Khan |
| 2015-08-19 |
| [DAWN] ATTOCK: The terrorist attack on Punjab 1.) Little Orphan Annie's bodyguard 2.) A province of Pakistain ruled by one of the Sharif brothers 3.) A province of India. It is majority (60 percent) Sikh and Hindoo (37 percent), which means it has relatively few Moslem riots.... Home Minister retired Col Shuja Khanzada has left the whole village of Shadi Khan in shock. According to the minister's personal staff, the attackers -- whoever they were -- had intimate knowledge of his movements and police say that circumstantial evidence points towards the attackers having strong connections in the locality. This is shocking and frightening for residents of this small village, since most of them belong to the same clan. Nearly everyone Dawn spoke to seemed visibly shaken by Sunday's attack and expressed a similar sentiment: they had never been under threat and did not expect that holy warriors could strike so close to home. Shadi Khan is a small settlement of around 250 houses and there are no shops or restaurants in the village square, so it is unlikely that an outsider can know the ins and outs of the area without local support. The family compound is a sprawling gated community located off the main road and houses nearly all members of the Khanzada clan, including former politician Taj Muhammad Khanzada. The minister's house is a five-minute drive from the location where the attack took place. "[Col] Khanzada came out of his house at around 10:30am and reached this dera at around 10:35am," the late minister's secretary Khawaja Shakeel said, pointing in the general direction of Col Khanzada's residence. "He quickly reached as he had to attend a meeting with the general public. People began to come up to him and greeted him one by one, and that's when the blast occurred; between 10:45am and 10:48am." |
| Posted by:Fred |