PESHAWAR: Officials probe into shrine, shop blasts
By Ali Hazrat Bacha
PESHAWAR, Dec 19: Investigators have so far been unable to find any clue to the bomb explosions which damaged the shrine of Abdul Shakoor Baba and a video shop on Wednesday morning.
The police officials said the bomb exploded in the early hours Wednesday when the shop’s owner Ramzan Khan had not yet come to open it. It was the third bomb explosion within 30-hour in the area of jurisdictions of Chamkani police station.
Tuesday’s first bomb exploded at about 2.40 am followed by another at 2.45 am. The bombs created two big craters in the floor and huge cracks in the arch of the shrine.
An official of the Chamkani police station told Dawn that the bombs were improvised versions of those used in the past and weighed 1kg each.
A high ranking police official told Dawn that the explosions seemed to be the result of ideological differences of the local religious people.
He said the two sects of Deobandi and Barelvi were already opposed to each others and their internal differences were on record.
He also referred to a clash of the two sects in the Bara Tehsil of Khyber Agency about a year ago, saying that the attackers of the shrine could be from a rival group.
