The military said on Tuesday that the killing of the army’s surgeon general in a suicide bombing was likely in retaliation to operations against militants near the Afghan border. “I think apparently it is in response and reaction to the Pakistan Army’s operations against militants in South Waziristan and other places in FATA,” chief military spokesman Major General Athar Abbas told AFP. Exact details would be known once the probe into the incident was over, he added. | So. How's that hudna with Baitullah Mehsud working for yez? Things pretty quiet? |
DNA test: The police officials said doctors at the Combined Military Hospital (CMH) were currently reconstructing the face of the suspected suicide bomber. They said the CMH laboratory would conduct DNA testing on the suspected body parts of the bomber.
The investigators have also planned to check the footage of CCTV cameras installed at nearby buildings in the hopes that it might help the investigation. According to the police sources, preliminary investigations have revealed that around 10 kilogrammes of explosives were used in the attack. Several ball bearings and metal shrapnel have also been found in Lieutenant General Mushtaq BaigÂ’s military vehicle, they added.
The police said that investigators had recorded the statements of several eyewitnesses on Tuesday. They said the eyewitnesses had revealed that the suicide bomber had walked up to BaigÂ’s car from the nearby NADRA office. The investigators would also record statements from the injured currently admitted to the CMH, the Military Hospital and the Cantonment Hospital, they added. They stressed that the fire brigade had not been allowed to wash the blast site before the collection of evidence.