Committee tasked with identifying handlers, facilitators of terrorists who attacked the Karachi police office
\n Karachi
\nSindh Police Inspector General (IG) Ghulam Memon constituted a five-member committee on Saturday to probe the attack on the Karachi Police Office (KPO) on Friday evening.
\nThe committee\u2014headed by DIG CTD Zulfiqar Larak\u2014comprises of DIG South, DIG CIA, SSP Tariq Nawaz and In-Charge CTD Umar Khattab.
\nThe committee has been tasked with identifying the handlers and facilitators of the terrorists.
\nMeanwhile, Additional IG Karachi Javed Alam Odhu presided over a meeting regarding the terrorist incidents during which officers of the law enforcement agencies were also present.
\nThe participants of the meeting were informed that weapons, grenades and suicide jackets were recovered from the possession of the terrorists.
\nIn the meeting, the footage from the CCTV cameras installed in the KPO was also reviewed.
\n\u2018Additional IG was the target\u2019
\nDIG South Irfan Baloch has claimed that the terrorists were targeting the Karachi Additional IG, noting that they had known which floor his office was on.
\nAccording to the Karachi police, the terrorists had been planning the attack for a month and had visited the police office before.
\n\u201cThe terrorists continued to gather information for a month. They had come to the office of Additional IG Karachi,\u201d said DIG Baloch
\nHe further said that the attack was carried out after the terrorists completed their surveillance. \u201cThe terrorists came in a vehicle from Saddar,\u201d he added.
\nKhattab confirmed that the Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) was involved in the KPO attack.
\n\u201cThe terrorists have been identified and the vehicle in which they came is being investigated,\u201d he said, adding that progress is being made to trace of the facilitators of the terrorists.
\nSecurity forces have identified two of the terrorists involved in the attack. Of the three militants killed in the retaliatory action by the security forces, two terrorists hailed from Lakki Marwat and North Waziristan in Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa (K-P) province.
\nThe police office building reportedly suffered significant damage during the attack. Many walls a pockmarked with bullets while windows and doors have been destroyed.
\nA suicide bomber had detonated himself on the stairs adjacent to the elevator in front of the Karachi police chief\u2019s office, causing severe damage to the office on the fourth floor.
\nThe Karachi police also shared a video of the attack, showing DIG East Muqadas Haider and his gunman Taimur fighting off the terrorists.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Committee tasked with identifying handlers, facilitators of terrorists who attacked the Karachi police office Karachi Sindh Police Inspector General (IG) Ghulam Memon constituted a five-member committee on Saturday to probe the attack on the Karachi Police Office (KPO) on Friday evening. The committee\u2014headed by DIG CTD Zulfiqar Larak\u2014comprises of DIG South, DIG CIA, SSP Tariq […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-314552","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-top-news"},"yoast_head":"\n