KARACHI, July 15: Police have failed to make any headway in identifying the suspected suicide bomber, whose severed head was found at the scene of the blast in which Allama Hasan Turabi and his nephew lost their lives.

A suicide bomber blew himself in front of the house of Allama Hasan Turabi on Friday afternoon. Police found the severed head of the bomber and sent its photographs to the databank of National Database & Registration Authority (Nadra) for identification.

A senior investigator said the Nadra authorities had earlier informed the investigators that they had detected resemblance of the severe head with a man in their databank, but when the police reached his house in Shah Faisal Colony, they found him alive.

Another officer, SSP Investigation Niaz Khoso said earlier the police sent a photograph of the severed head, but the Nadra had its own sophisticated equipment to take pictures that divided a face into 64 diagonal dimensions. A Nadra team brought its equipment and took the photograph of the severed head. He said that the Nadra would expand its search and inform the investigators about the results soon.

He said that it was the incident in which a suicide bomber targeted a single person. Earlier in the suicide bombing near US Consulate on March 2 this year, the suicide bomber using the C-4 explosive-laden car targeted single US diplomat.

However, the pallets found at the site of the incident in which Allama Hasan Turabi lost his life, were similar to those used in the earlier attack on Allama Turabi on April 6 on Abul Hasan Isphani Road.

Mr Khoso said the pallets found from the scene were also identical to those found from the site of suicide bombing at Madinatul Ilm on May 30, 2005. A splinter group of a banned sectarian organization, Lashkar-i-Jhangvi, was found involved in the suicide attack on Madinatul Ilm.

Investigators were of the view that they could not reach a conclusion but there was a possibility of the involvement of a Jihadi outfit in the suicide attacks on Nishtar Park on April 11, and on Allama Hasan Turabi. Besides, a sectarian group was also under surveillance, they added, referring to the banned LJ.