12 June 2004	Saturday	23 Rabi-us-Saani 1425

KARACHI, June 11: Police investigators on Friday enacted the scene of the Thursdays attack on the army convoy carrying Karachi corps commander. Eleven people were killed in the attack.

The investigators enacted the incident by placing vehicles at the same spot where the incident had taken place. They examined the spots from where the attack was launched.

Some maps of the place were drawn and eyewitness accounts of the owners of the shops at the Prince Centre and their employees were noted. A section of the main Clifton Road, from Teen Talwar to the Iranian Cultural Centre, was closed to vehicular traffic to enact the scene.

A similar exercise was carried out by Military Police on Wednesday evening. The ambush on the army convoy had taken place at about 9am on Thursday morning. However, the first information report (FIR) of the incident was not registered till filing of this report on Friday night.

A duty officer at the Boat Basin police station told Dawn that the FIR was yet to registered. "We are waiting for the orders from the high-ups," he added. Meanwhile, acting under tremendous pressure from the high-upsto trace the suspects of Thursday's ambush on the corps commander's convoy, police and other law-enforcement agencies have picked up scores of suspects from different parts of the city during night-long raids, sources said.

Majority of the suspects detained by the law-enforcement agencies belonged to the outlawed jihadi outfits, said a source. The CCPO Karachi, Tariq Jameel, told Dawn that police were working on all options.

"We are trying to identify the suspects whose sketches have been prepared by the CPLC with the help of eyewitnesses," the city police chief said. For this purpose, he added, the existing data-base of criminals was also being examined by the investigators for any possible match.

The manner in which Thursday's ambush was carried out showed that the suspects, believed to be nine or 10 in number, were well-trained, remarked one of the investigators.

"Their escape from the spot after carrying out such a massive attack also signifies their ability to take on the army," some other investigators remarked. They pointed out that the assailants had driven through the Defence View township in two cars to escape from the scene.

Meanwhile, an AFP report quoting a senior police investigator said: "We strongly suspect Amjad Farooqi's hand in the attack on the general's convoy." Farooqi was named by General Musharraf last month as the alleged key planner of the December 13 and 25 attacks on his convoy in Rawalpindi.