The spokesperson for Frontier Corps (FC) has claimed that the alleged mastermind behind the attack on Quaid-e-Azam’s Ziarat Residency was killed in a targeted raid carried out by the FC personnel in the Mach area of Balochistan’s Bolan district on Friday.
FC Spokesman Khan Wasey said three militants were killed by security forces, including Mehmood alias Mama, the alleged mastermind of bombing the Quaid residency on June 15, 2013. The accused was also involved in ethnic killing in the province, he added.
Wasey said “the militants were also involved in the murder of a Hindu trader in the area”. FC also recovered arms and ammunition from the possession of militants.
Militants had carried out a symbolic and audacious attack on Pakistan, its history and the federal structure when they blew up the Ziarat Residency, the building in which the Quaid-e-Azam spent the last days of his life in 1948. The Balochistan Liberation Army had claimed responsibility for the strike.
The residency was later rebuild and brought back to its original glory by the government and was then inaugurated on August 14, 2014.
