KARACHI: An improvised explosive device was found in the parking area of an office of the Counter Terrorism Department on Monday, police said.

They said that some unidentified men lobbed the IED into the CTD office in Civil Lines in the early hours of Monday but it failed to explode.

CTD official Amir Farooqi said that the IED landed in the parking area of the CTD. The IED was defused by bomb disposal squad officials, who said that the wires were not connected to the device.

Civil Lines SHO Waqar Ahmed Tanoli said that it was an ‘incomplete’ IED and it appeared that the motive was to merely spread fear and panic.

Quoting the BDS officials, the SHO said that the device weighed about half a kilogramme.

In 2010, 17 people were killed and over 100 others wounded in a massive bomb attack on the same office of the CTD, which was then known as the Crime Investigation Department (CID).

Published in Dawn, November 24th, 2015