KARACHI-
Unknown attackers detonated a low-powered bomb on a road housing two schools in Karachi’s Gulshan-e-Iqbal area Tuesday and left a note at the scene warning of more violence if the hanging of militants did not stop.
According to DIG-East Munir Sheikh, no school was directly targeted.
No injuries were reported in the event as students were not present at the schools located in Gulshan-e-Iqbal’s Block 7.
Academic activities in all the schools in the vicinity were suspended after the event.
Photos of the letter, reportedly left by the attackers at the scene, were doing rounds on social media:
And (Reportedly) this was the letter dropped by the attackers after School attack in #Karachi pic.twitter.com/ejXELAcKdG
— شاعرِ جنوب (@syedatifali) February 3, 2015
Evidence has been gathered by the investigators who rushed to the site following the event. Director General Rangers Maj-Gen Bilal Akbar also visited the site.
Meanwhile, provincial Education Minister Nisar Khuhro took notice of the blast and sought a report from Additional Inspector General (AIG) Karachi police.
The incident followed shortly after two sectarian militants were executed in Karachi Central Jail earlier today for the murder of a Shiite Muslim doctor.
Attaullah, alias Qasim, and Mohammad Azam were convicted of killing doctor Ali Raza in 2001 at the busy Soldier Bazaar area of Pakistan’s largest city, which is racked by rising sectarian violence.
A total of 22 people have now been executed since the government brought back hangings in terror cases amid public outrage over a Taliban massacre at a school that left 150 people dead.
This is all these Kaafirs are good at throwing grenades at schools full of children, act like Men and fight in the open with your Munafiq faces uncovered! If you are that much of Muslims go and help the Palestinians and fight the Zionists.
The terrorists and their supporters have lost the majority of their sympathizers. The façade of “hiding behind religious edicts” has been exposed. Senseless killings of innocents cannot be justified to anyone with an iota of sense. The enemy is left frustrated; with very little support and so they are hitting back at soft targets. The attack on the place of worship in Shikarpur and today’s attack on School in Karachi come from an enemy with the same vicious and evil mindset. We are glad that there were no casualties in this attack, and that is all the more reason to be vigilant and prepared for this evil enemy, who would stoop so low as to hurt our children. The terrorists should know that we stand united against them and we will not leave any stone unturned to defeat their malicious agenda of death and destruction.
Abdul Quddus
DET – U.S. Central Command
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