HYDERABAD: Cracker explosions occurred in different districts of Sindh province on Friday evening with no reports of casualties.

Five police stations’ SHOs are suspended by DIG Hyderabad police range, Akram Naeem Bharoka for their failure to arrest those who lobbed these locally made crackers.

In Hyderabad alone, the explosions were reported at seven places.

DIG Bharoka told Dawn.com that 20 suspects have been taken into police custody in connection with the explosions.

SSP Hyderabad Irfan Bahadur suspended four SHOs police stations under suspension following the incidents.

Unidentified persons hurled crackers outside police’s helpline (15) in Qasimabad, Kohinoor chowk, Qazi Abdul Qayyum Road near Kaimkhani hostel, Hyder chowk, unit-7 Latifabad near a private taxi stop, Hali Road and Liberty chowk.

According to SSP, the SHOs were suspended because they didn’t show the courage to nab those miscreants who kept hurling them at different places.

The explosions were reported one after the other. No one has so far claimed responsibility for these explosions.

The suspended SHOs are Tahir Khanzada, Abdul Malik Abro, Imran Rasheed and Karim Abbasi. They were respectively posted at A-section Latifabad, Hali Road, City and Qasimabad police stations.

Market police station SHO, however, was not touched for the Liberty area cracker explosion.

SSP Jamshoro Wasi Hyder told Dawn.com that two activists of Jeay Sindh Muttahida Mahaz (JSMM) were arrested in Bhan Saeedabad area of Jamshoro district.

They are identified as Kamran Bughio and Mukhtiar Leghari and crackers were seized from them. He also confirmed that the suspects were arrested in Site area Kotri at T&T chowk for possessing arms and their political affiliation is being verified.

SHO of Bhitshah police station was also suspended under orders of DIG police Hyderabad Akram Naeem Bharoka.

Explosions are also reported in Kotri of Jamshoro, Dadu and Khairpur districts.

The JSMM has given a strike call for Jan 25 in Sindh against British government’s silence over Muttahida Qaumi Movement (MQM) chief Altaf Hussain’s statement against integrity of Sindh.

JSSM chairman Shafi Burfat in his statement had said if British government continues to make a discreet silence while British soil is used against Sindh then its interests in Sindh would be at stake.

Following these incidents, police and law enforcers beefed up security across the province.