Against the expectation of Pakistan seeking to utilise the Wednesday’s car blast in Lahore to malign India’s name, a hardly known pro-Taliban group called ‘Ansar Wa Mohajir’ has claimed responsibility for the Lahore blast, for which four men whom Pakistan claimed to be Indians were detained by Pakistani authorities.
The group has also claimed for the earlier rocket attacks on Dera Ismail Khan, and its commander and spokesman, Toofan Wazir, as he called himself, threatened more attacks against the security forces and the government installations.
A day after the blast, Toofan Wazir phoned the News daily somewhere from the North Waziristan and claimed the onus for the two attacks, saying the attack was carried out to take vengeance of the US missile strikes in North Waziristan in which several militants from Punjab province were killed.
Wazir also accused Pakistani government equally responsible for those killings as missiles were fired by the US at Pakistani targets with the agreement and cooperation of it.
He reportedly warned Pakistani government be prepared to bear the cost, and said suicide bombings would be carried out and bombs would be planted and exploded at important government installations.
As per the media reports, the intelligence and security agencies in Lahore had arrested a man alleged to be an Indian national identified as Satish in connection with the car blast on Wednesday and a day later had arrested three more alleged Indian men on the information provided by Satish.
Media reports had quoted Pakistani intelligence sources as claiming that four Indians were behind the attack.
Against it, Lahore SSP (operations) Chaudhary Shafiq Ahmed had earlier denied such arrest being made by the police. He reportedly said that he had no such information. The man might have been arrested by some other law-enforcement agency, he added.
A woman was killed and four others were injured in the explosion occurred in a car on Wednesday in a tight-security residential complex for government officials in Lahore.
(Agencies)
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