Afghan hand seen in Balochistan blasts: Centre urged to take up issue
By Our Staff Correspondent
QUETTA, April 26: Balochistan Home Minister Mir Shoaib Ahmed Nausherwani has urged the federal government to lodge protest with Kabul over involvement of Afghan nationals in two bomb explosions in Quetta over the past four days.
The minister said at a press conference on Wednesday evening that the man killed with members of his family in an explosion two days back was a terrorist who was making a bomb in his home.
He said the weapons being used by militants against security forces were coming from Afghanistan.
He did not agree with a suggestion that the Afghan government was involved in the Balochistan situation but said individuals from the neighbouring country had been involved in subversive activities in Quetta during the past four days.
“All evidence so far collected by investigators leads towards Afghanistan,” the minister said, adding that police were trying to identify organisations working against Pakistan.
He said various foreign elements had been trying to destabilise Pakistan for a long time.
He said it was also the responsibility of the Afghan government to take action against organisations and individuals found involved in such activities.
He demanded that the federal government should strongly protest with Afghanistan over involvement of nationals of the neighbouring country in bomb blasts and other such acts.
He said the government should ask Kabul to take action against those behind such acts.
“The explosion in Baloch Colony was a bomb blast and not gas explosion,” Mir Nausherwani said.
He said the man killed in the blast, Kamaluddin, belonged to Helmand.
He said police had found enough evidence in the house to prove that the deceased was involved in terrorist activities.
The minister said injured Zar Bibi, the second wife of Kamaluddin, had told investigators that her husband was working on some wires when the explosion took place. She had told police that her husband had taken the home on rent a month ago and he was jobless. His Brother Abdul Baseer was sending money for his expenditure from Afghanistan.
Police had found seven device timers, 416 12-volt batteries, 342 automatic timers, three remote control devices, electrical components, chemicals and Afghan currency in the house, the minister said.
In reply to a question, the minister said: “There is no training camp of Taliban in Balochistan.”
He said Khuzdar police had on Wednesday arrested five alleged terrorists.
