The Federal and provincial
governments have taken strict security measures to maintain law and order on
the occasion. The law enforcement agencies have been put on high alert
throughout the country to deal with any eventuality, cell phone service
suspended in more than eighty cities and close circuit cameras have also been
installed at sensitive points to keep watch on Majalis and processions.
Despite these arrangements perpetrators
succeeded in creating a blast near an Imambargah situated in Karachi Shadman
Town area early on Friday injuring at least one person. TV reports quoted
police officials as saying that unknown persons riding on a motorcycle hurled a
hand grenade from a bridge near a group of policemen deployed for security at the
said Imambargah, near Nagan Chowrangi. The Majlis-i-Wahdat-i-Muslimeen (MWM)
condemned the attack on the Imambargah.
It is necessary to remind the
readers the statement of Karachi Police Chief Shahid Hayat given on Tuesday “Conspiracy
is being hatched to fan Sunni-Shia clashes in the city”. The gunmen killed five
Sunnis a day after six Shias were assassinated in the metropolis.
Responding to a question, the IGP
Sindh said the police were alert to possible reaction to the recent killing of
Pakistani Taliban chief Hakimullah Mehsud in a drone attack in northwestern
North Waziristan agency, close to Afghan border.
Police said five, killed on Tuesday,
belonged to Deobandi sect and were either members or sympathizers of banned
extremist outfits. “Apparently they were targeted because of their sect,”
senior police officer Muneer Shaikh told AFP.
