Secretariat messenger identified

Published April 17, 2008

LAHORE, April 16: That the motorcyclist who had entered the FIA headquarters seconds before the two suicide bombers broke into it in a truck on March 11 was civil secretariat's dispatch rider Muhammad Gulastar, has been finally confirmed.

The confirmation has been made by the family of the Gulastar and his colleagues in the secretariat after watching recording of the FIA's close-circuit camera. Officials were planning to hold a symbolic funeral for Gulastar on Wednesday whereas his brother was pleading for the payment of all his dues to his widow.—Staff Reporter

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