Panic gripped the United Bank Limited (UBL) building on Friday as all office work remained suspended for almost two hours following a hoax bomb call.
Police said that an anonymous call was received at UBL building warning the employees to vacate the areas within 30 minutes as a bomb would blow up entire building.
The caller also threatened that following the explosion terrorists would launch an armed attack on the building. After this call, thousands of employees working in the UBL building, which also houses offices of some other companies, came out on roads.
Kohsar Police Station Assistant Superintendent (ASI) Malik Sadiq said that each inch of the building was scanned with metal dictators and sniffer dogs during the half hour operation but no bomb was found.
“After a thorough inspection, we asked all the employees to resume work. The police has started investigating the hoax call, so far we have traced it to a telephone booth in sector F-10,” informed Sadiq.
Hoax calls often create panic amongst the public, particularly for the employees of the UBL building, which has received three hoax bomb calls so far.