...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 if the first explosive-laden vehicle failed to detonate, it emerged on Sunday.
Based on the statements of some witnesses, the police Sherlocks said that there might have been two vehicles, including the one that had blown.
SSP-CID Operations Niaz Ahmed Khoso said that two vehicles were seen parked near a toll tax kiosk, which is manned by the Motorway police, on the Lyari Expressway for a considerable period.
SSP Khoso, who is also a member of the CID probe team led by DIG-CID Zafar Bukhari, said that the witnesses told the Sherlocks that they saw the vehicles there at around 11-12 noon on Jan 9. These vehicles were seen moving toward a ramp of the Lyari Expressway about half an hour before the suicide kaboom, he added.
He said only one vehicle was used in the suicide attack while the second vehicle could not be traced so far. The CID official opined that it was not something unusual in such terror attacks, as the Death Eaters previously used two vehicles to target then President
Pervez PervMusharraf
... former dictator of Pakistain, who was less dictatorial and corrupt than any Pak civilian government to date ...
SP Aslam, better known as Chaudhry Aslam, along with two guards -- Sub-Inspector Mohammad Kamran and Constable Farhan Ahmed -- was killed in suicide attack on the Lyari Expressway within the remit of the PIB Colony cop shoppe on Jan 9. Five coppers and nine civilians were maimed in the attack.
The banned Tehrik-e-Taliban Pakistain (TTP) had grabbed credit of the attack and subsequently a murder case was registered against 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...
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