ISLAMABAD, April 18: Interior Minister Aftab Ahmad Khan Sherpao on Tuesday said investigation agencies had found credible clues to the bomb blast in Karachi’s Nishtar Park.
Talking to journalists here after a meeting with UNHCR deputy high commissioner Wendy Chamberlain, Mr Sherpao, however, said he could not elaborate the findings at this stage. So far, he said, investigations had confirmed that it was a suicide attack.
Responding to a question about involvement of any foreign intelligence agency in the probe, he said Pakistani investigation agencies were handling the case, and there was no need for taking help from foreign agencies.
He ruled out an impression that the Karachi blast had any link to the bomb explosions in Delhi’s Jamiya Masjid.
GHAZEEN MARI: The minister said Ghazeen Marri, son of Baloch nationalist leader Nawab Khair Bux Marri, allegedly involved in money laundering cases and terrorism activities in Balochistan and currently living in Dubai, would be handed over to Pakistani authorities in a few days.
He said Ghazeen Marri was arrested by United Arab Emirates authorities several days ago.
Mr Sherpao said he faced multiple charges, including that of the murder of Justice Nawaz Marri.
An interior ministry source said Ghazeen’s arrest was made after the federal government proscribed Balochistan Liberation Army. Ghazeen is considered as the main financier of the BLA.
Briefing the journalists on the meeting with Ms Chamberlain, the interior minister said the meeting discussed and reviewed repatriation of Afghan refugees from Pakistan. He said the tripartite agreement of voluntary repatriation of Afghan refugees would expire in December 2006.
