Karachi University Blast: Pakistan companies suspect presence of extra feminine suicide bombers of outlawed Baluchistan Liberation Army

Pakistani investigators probing the suicide assault by a lady on the Karachi University that killed three Chinese academics haven’t dominated out the presence of extra feminine suicide bombers in sleeper cells of the outlawed Baluchistan Liberation Army, at the same time as police in Lahore have arrested a suspect from Punjab University in reference to the bombing.

On Tuesday, an explosion triggered by a burqa-clad lady suicide bomber from the Baluchistan Liberation Army (BLA) ripped by means of a van of the Confucius Institute on the prestigious University of Karachi, leaving three Chinese academics useless and one injured, within the newest focused assault towards Chinese residents in Pakistan.

Following the incident, the banned BLA took to social media to say accountability and announce that the bomber was a lady named Shaari Baloch who was extremely educated mom of two younger youngsters, belonging to a well-established household and dealing as a college instructor in her native Turbat, Balochistan.

The Anti-Terrorism Department of the Sindh Police additionally recognized the bomber who was born in Turbat in 1991 however settled in Kech district of the restive Baluchistan province.

“Initial investigations confirmed she was part of the banned Majeed brigade, a part of the BLA which has brainwashed these suicide bombers,” an official of the Anti-Terrorism Department stated.

“We are trying into prospects that there could be extra feminine suicide bombers brainwashed to change into a part of the Majeed Brigade and ready in sleeper cells,” he said.

He confirmed that initial investigations had shown that Shari Baloch did not carry out the attack independently and was guided and helped by her handlers/facilitators, including a woman who met her at the entrance of the university and apparently briefed her before she went to the entrance of the Confucius Institute where she detonated herself as soon as the coaster van carrying the Chinese academics came.

“We suspect this operation was carried out with inside information,” the official said.

On Wednesday, the Counter Terrorism Department (CTD) of Punjab Police have arrested a suspect from Lahore’s Punjab University in connection with the suicide bombing at the Karachi University.

The intelligence agencies tracked down a suspect with whom Shari Baloch remained in contact by cellphone in Lahore and arrested him during a raid at a hostel of the Punjab University, a source in CTD told PTI on Thursday.

The suspect has been identified as Bebagr Imdad, a student of the seventh semester of English Literature in Numl, Islamabad. He also belongs to the area where Shaari Baloch lived.

“The companies are choosing up all those that remained in touch with Shaari earlier than she blew herself up and Bebagr was certainly one of them,” he said.

A Punjab University spokesperson Khurram Shahzad told PTI that Bebagr had come to Lahore two days ago from Islamabad.

“On Tuesday, he visited his cousin at hostel 7 who’s a historical past division pupil. On Wednesday, a safety company official approached the varsity administration and advised it that it wanted to take Bebagr into custody for his alleged hyperlink with the Karachi University bombing. The Punjab University obliged the request and now he’s being interrogated,” Shehzad said.

Some 300 students from Balochistan are currently studying at the Punjab University.

The security agencies are now searching for the husband of Shari Baloch, Dr Haibatan, who was apparently doing a public health course at the Jinnah Postgraduate Medical Centre (JPMC) and was staying at a nearby hotel. However, his wife lived in Gulistan-i-Jauhar with her two children.

Counter-Terrorism Department official Raja Umar Khatab said that Shari Baloch and her husband had left their places a week before the attack and the husband’s whereabouts were not known. Raids were being carried out to find the husband and other facilitators, he said.

The CTD official also made it clear that Shari Baloch was not a student at the KU and in fact had done her BE and ME from the University of Balochistan and had also worked as a government teacher.

The officer said that the outlawed BLA had claimed responsibility for the attack and shared details about the attacker on their social media platforms. “We also suspect the involvement of a hostile foreign agency in this attack,” he said.

Meanwhile, the members of Baloch Student Council at Punjab University held a demonstration outside the varsity and demanded release of Bebagr. They said the “abduction of Bebagr” was a part of ongoing disappearances and harassment of the Baloch college students within the nation. They stated they’d proceed their protest until the discharge of Bebagr from the companies’ custody.

The suicide bombing on the Karachi University appears to be the harbinger of a ‘new and surprising dimension’ within the dynamics of terrorism in Pakistan, significantly the Baloch insurgency.

Meanwhile, Additional Police Surgeon on the Jinnah Post Graduate Medical Hospital Dr Summaiya Syed stated that the 4 individuals who had been injured within the bomb blast, together with a fourth Chinese instructor, Wang Yuqing, are out of hazard.

Those killed within the suicide bombing included three Chinese school members and their Pakistani driver, Khalid Nawaz.

In the FIR lodged in regards to the incident by SHO Basharat Hussain, the BLA Majeed Brigade militant commanders Bashir Zaib and Rehman Gul and others had been concerned within the assault.

The FIR says the BLA needed to undermine relations between Pakistan and China and get publicity for his or her outlawed outfit by means of terrorist acts, the FIR added.

The safety forces on Thursday raided the home of the daddy of the bomber in a society positioned in Karachi’s Scheme 33. Laptops and different proof, together with paperwork, had been seized through the raid.

The Security companies in Balochistan on Wednesday additionally searched the house of the suicide bomber in Gulistan-e-Johar and sealed it afterwards. The house was rented and the bomber had been residing there for the final three years.

The Karachi University reopened for the primary time on Thursday after the suicide assault.

The college’s spokesperson stated that administrative affairs and the educating course of within the college will proceed as common. However, the Confucius Institute will stay closed till clearance from the Chinese embassy.

Newly-appointed Foreign Minister Bilawal Bhutto Zardari visited the Chinese embassy in Islamabad shortly after he took cost on Wednesday.

Information Minister Marriyum Aurangzeb advised a press convention that the federal government was reviewing the National Action Plan towards terrorism and would carry the perpetrators of the Karachi bombing to justice.

China has demanded stern motion towards the militant organisations behind the assault. Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesman Wang Wenbin throughout a media briefing requested Pakistan to scale-up safety for its nationals working within the nation and demanded an intensive investigation and punishment to the perpetrators behind the suicide assault.

The assault that too by a lady suicide bomber from BLA, which is vocally opposing the USD 60 billion China-Pakistan Economic Corridor (CPEC), despatched shock waves in China because it highlights deep rooted opposition to Chinese tasks. Balochistan, bordering Iran and Afghanistan, is dwelling to a long-running violent insurgency. Baloch rebel teams have beforehand carried out a number of assaults concentrating on the CPEC tasks.

Thousands of Chinese personnel are working in Pakistan on a bunch of tasks being carried out underneath the aegis of the CPEC.