...formerly the capital of Pakistain, now merely its most important port and financial center. It is among the largest cities in the world, with a population of 18 million, most of whom hate each other and many of whom are armed and dangerous...
have nominated Tehrik-e-Taliban (TTP) chief Mullah Fazlullah
...son-in-law of holy man Sufi Mohammad. Known as Mullah FM, Fazlullah had the habit of grabbing his FM mike when the mood struck him and bellowing forth sermons. Sufi suckered the Pak govt into imposing Shariah on the Swat Valley and then stepped aside whilst Fazlullah and his Talibs imposed a reign of terror on the populace like they hadn't seen before, at least not for a thousand years or so. For some reason the Pak intel services were never able to locate his transmitter, much less bomb it. After ruling the place like a conquered province for a year or so, Fazlullah's Talibs began gobbling up more territory as they pushed toward Islamabad, at which point as a matter of self-preservation the Mighty Pak Army threw them out and chased them into Afghanistan...
in the FIR for the bombing that killed senior police officer SP CID Chaudhry Aslam Khan and his two guards earlier this week.
The FIR was registered at the PIB Colony cop shoppe nominating both the TTP chief and front man Shahidullah Shahid for the alleged killing.
The banned bad boy organization had claimed the credit for killing the senior police officer, touted by some as "the bravest anti-terror cop" in the country.
Police authorities investigating the Thursday kaboom concluded that a jacket wallah had rammed his explosives-laden pickup into the slain police officer's bulletproof SUV when his motorcade was passing through the Lyari
...one of the eighteen constituent towns of the city of Karachi. It is the smallest town by area in the city but also the most densely populated. Lyari has few schools, substandard hospitals, a poor water system, limited infrastructure, and broken roads. It is a stronghold of ruling Pakistan Peoples Party. Ubiquitous gang activity and a thriving narcotics industry make Lyari one of the most disturbed places in Karachi, which is really saying a lot....
Expressway.
The police had earlier believed that it was a remote-controlled blast. However,
a poor excuse is better than no excuse at all...
the Sherlocks found human remains at the scene of crime and a hospital examination showed that the pieces were of some unidentified person, suspected to be the suicide bomber.
Since the suspected bomber's both hands were intact, he was identified through his fingerprints by Nadra records as 36-year-old Naeemullah, son of Rafiullah and a resident of the Pirabad area. Police said Naimullah's father Rafiullah was the caretaker of a local madressa (Islamic seminary).
Security agencies have taken both the suspected suicide bombers father and brother under arrest.
Police said the elder brother of the alleged suicide bomber was murdered in Karachi after he returned from Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa
... formerly NWFP, still Terrorism Central...
, also to carry out a failed suicide kaboom.
Authorities are still carrying out further investigation.