12 April 2004	Monday	21 Safar 1425

KARACHI, April 11: Police suspect involvement of religious extremists in the Saturday's bomb explosion near the Golf Club in Defence, where an Indian singer was in concert.

Sources said that the sketch of a suspect was prepared with the help of the owner of the car, which was snatched at gunpoint and later used in the blast. There was a similarity in the sketch and the sketches of those involved in snatching the car used in the attack on Gulistan-i-Jauhar police station.

There was a strong possibility of the involvement of the same group in the Saturday's blast, they added. "It was not a suicide attack as the driver of the car fled well before it had exploded," chief investigator Manzoor Mughal told Dawn on Sunday.

He said that the car was snatched at gunpoint an hour before the blast around 9:30pm from Abdur Rasheed in Block-16 of Gulshan-i-Iqbal. The same car exploded 1.5 kilometres from the place of concert where Sonu Nigam performed.

Farrukh Zareen, 20, died in the blast, who was going to join the concert. Farrukh was the son of a serving sub-inspector. He said that six others were injured in the incident.

According to the police spokesman, an FIR No.83/04 was registered against unknown men at Darakhshan police station. Besides, another FIR 92/04 about the snatching of the car was registered at Aziz Bhatti police station.