| KARACHI: Five policemen were arrested for negligence after footage from surveillance cameras showed they failed to stop and question people believed to have planted two car bombs that exploded near the US Consul’s residence in Karachi, an investigator said Friday. The bombs, which exploded some minutes apart outside the Pak-American Cultural Center (a few meters from the American Consul’s house) on Wednesday killed one policeman and wounded 40, mostly policemen and journalists. Police suspect the outlawed Islamic militant group, Harkat-ul-Mujahedeen al-Almi, who were blamed for an attack on the US Consulate in June 2002 in which 14 people died, could have masterminded the bombings. |