Twin blasts targeting a Rangers vehicle in Larkana on Saturday have been claimed by the Sindhudesh Revolutionary Army (SRA) in pamphlets found by police at the crime scene, police said on Sunday.
The pamphlet says the SRA has taken the responsibility for the attack.
The explosions which took place near a Rangers kiosk on Mirokhan Road killed a soldier and injured 15 other people, including five Rangers personnel.
Deputy Inspector General for Larkana, Abdullah Shaikh, said police were investigating but no arrests have yet been made.
“It is premature to say anything at this point in the backdrop of this pamphlet,” he said, adding that “responsibility for the blast is certainly claimed through this pamphlet.”
The separatism movement in Sindh dates back to at least the early 1970s when GM Syed gave the call for an independent ‘Sindhudesh’ ─ a separate homeland for Sindhis.
From then onwards, nationalism in Sindh has taken on various forms and hues. The nationalists have ranged from those who choose to work for the province’s rights within the framework of Pakistan, to more militant outfits that support separatism through armed violence.
The attack on Rangers personnel comes as the extension of Rangers’ policing powers from Karachi to the rest of Sindh is under debate.
Former Sindh chief minister Syed Qaim Ali Shah was set to make a decision on the issue when he was replaced by PPP’s Murad Ali Shah.
