Karachi’s unsolved terror cases bred more terrorism in 2020
Police personnel investigate the attack on Pakistan stock market . File photo
The year 2020 has not been good for the citizens of Karachi in terms of peace, because the city suffered several acts of terrorism after the activation of sleeper cells of various militant organisations, while the enforcement agencies are yet to unravel these cases and convey the groups behind all the violence to justice.
The brazen attack on the Pakistan stock market (PSX) getting to hurt the country’s economy also as its relations with China, which has been developing a game-changing international business corridor in partnership with Pakistan, was a serious terror attack to possess occurred in Karachi on Saints Peter and Paul .
The attack was administered by a nationalist party of Balochistan that's funded by the Indian spy agency Research & Analysis Wing, which is more commonly known by its acronym RAW. Four people were killed after gunmen stormed the PSX compound. Four gunmen attempted to attack the stock market building, firing indiscriminately as they got out of their car and charging towards a security barrier at the doorway .
Two attackers were killed at that barrier, while the opposite two were shot dead in an exchange of fireside with security officials within the compound’s parking zone . Three private security guards and a policeman were killed by the gunmen. a minimum of seven people were wounded within the attack. The attackers had also been carrying hand grenades.
The Balochistan Liberation Army (BLA), a terrorist organisation that has links with not only India but also some elements in Afghanistan, had claimed responsibility for the attack. But the PSX attack wasn't the sole case of terrorism in Karachi this year. The murder of a spiritual scholar and a number of other attacks on Rangers and police officials also disrupted the peace of the town . The enforcement agencies, however, have did not solve these cases and arrest the masterminds or maybe the key suspects of those incidents.
On October 10, the Sunni sect’s religious scholar Maulana Prof Dr Muhammad Adil Khan and his driver were murdered in Shah Faisal Colony when the attackers opened fire on the scholar’s double-cabin vehicle.
Dr Khan, head of the Jamia Farooqia seminary, had been on his way range in the Hub River Road area from Darul Uloom in Korangi when he had come under fire .
“Both these major incidents of terrorism are linked to people who have occurred in Karachi over the previous years, but the investigators have did not solve the past cases and bust the groups responsible,” said a senior policeman .
“Had the investigators succeeded in solving the previous cases, there may need been a lower possibility of more terrorism within the city. And since this year’s terror cases also remain unsolved, it's feared that more incidents of terrorism could be future next year.”
The PSX attack has been linked to the Chinese consulate attack of November 2018, and Dr Khan’s assassination has been linked to a minimum of two attacks that are administered on Sunni religious leaders over the past few years.
On February 15, 2015, Ahle Sunnat Wal Jamaat chief Maulana Aurangzaib Farooqi came under fire in District Korangi during the wee hours and survived the attempt on his life.
On March 22, 2019, Jamia Darul Uloom Karachi’s Mufti Taqi Usmani was on his thanks to deliver the Friday sermon at Jamia Masjid Baitul Mukarram on University Road when two motorbike pillion riders fired at his car on the ramp of the Nipa flyover.
Mufti Usmani and his family, all of whom were within the back seat, survived the attack, but their police guard Muhammad Farooq and driver Habib were killed.
“Unfortunately, the enforcement agencies were only ready to trace and arrest the facilitators of those cases, encouraging key operatives and masterminds of foreign-funded militant and nationalist organisations to still remain active in Karachi,” said another senior policeman .
Two more major terror incidents were administered within the city just this month: in one, terrorists attempted to magnify a vehicle of a Chinese national within the upmarket Clifton neighbourhood, and within the other, a grenade explosion injured four people, including two Rangers soldiers, just outside the University of Karachi.
Officials suspect that both incidents are connected to the previous incidents of terrorism believed to possess been administered by the RAW-funded Balochistan Liberation Army and Sindh Revolutionary Army (SRA).
Apart from terrorism, the town has also witnessed over half a dozen cases of other attacks that were administered on police and Rangers officials. However, though the investigators have accused the SRA for attacking Rangers officials, they need did not trace and arrest the key suspects responsible.
Moreover, cases of target killings of policemen also remain unsolved, despite the very fact that for the primary time in seven years, the banned terrorist organisation Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan has claimed responsibility for the murders.
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