KARACHI: Investigators still await DNA test report
By Our Staff Reporter
KARACHI, May 21: Investigators in Nishtar Park bombing case are still waiting for the report of DNA test of the suspected suicide bomber and the claimants of the severed head.
Well-placed sources in the police department said the DNA report had been sent to Sindh police and it had already landed at the department. The sources said that in fact the report was being kept in secret.
However, DIG Investigation Zone-I Manzoor Mughal told Dawn on Sunday that the investigators had not received the DNA report so far. “We came to know through some means that the report was negative and did not establish relationship between two claimants and the severe head,” he said.
Mr Mughal said that blood samples of two brothers Riasat and Rauf were taken to match it with the sample taken from the severed head. He said the impression had been strengthened that the man, whose severed head was found, could be suicide bomber, as his relationship had not been established.
Referring to some media reports about the forced eviction of Rauf and Riasat along with their families from Karachi, he said: “We have not forced them to go to their native village in Abottabad. We had taken them in protective custody but now they are free and at their home here in the city,” he added.
Interior Secretary Syed Kamal Shah on May 19 had stated that DNA test results turned out to be negative.
A few weeks back, the two brothers Rauf and Riasat contacted the police reporting the disappearance of their brother Amjad Khan since April 11.
