Altaf Hussain the terrorist is responsible for this attrocity in Karachi.
Like it or not Altaf rules the roost in Karachi and like the May 12th killing this too has been done by him with wink wink nod nod from Mushy ( Mushy & MQM go hand in hand )
These blast set the precedent for declaring martial law!
meaning Mushy will be back in the driving seat and Altaf terrorist will get a pat on the back and rewarded by orchestrating this attack and blaming it on the tribals!
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No evidence Baitullah threatened suicide attack
By Rahimullah Yusufzai
PESHAWAR: Did Baitullah Mehsud, the commander of Taliban fighters in South Waziristan, really threaten suicide attacks targeting Benazir Bhutto?
Members of his group have expressed ignorance about any such threat and the pro-MMA Senator Maulana Saleh Shah, who was reported to have made a statement about Baitullah Mehsud’s plan to ‘welcome’ Benazir Bhutto upon her return to Pakistan with a suicide bombing, has already issued a denial.
The threatened suicide bombing has been widely reported by the domestic and international media. It was taken seriously and became the major reason for undertaking extraordinary security measures for the expected arrival of Benazir Bhutto at Karachi airport on Thursday and during the, subsequent, procession that she was scheduled to lead. It also prompted her and her party to seek special jamming devices and foolproof security measures to foil any terrorist attack on her.
However, there is no evidence that Baitullah Mehsud has issued any threat to target Benazir Bhutto. Members of his group in South Waziristan and Tank said they were unaware that a threat was issued.
Requesting anonymity, they pointed out that Baitullah Mehsud, in the rare statements that he has issued till now, never made any such threat. They said his spokesman, Zulfiqar Mehsud, too, had not made any threat of suicide bombing at Benazir Bhutto.
The threat was first reported in a section of the press and the news item quoted Maulana Saleh Shah, member of the Senate from South Waziristan. An English language newspaper (not The News) in a front page story quoted the Maulana as saying that Baitullah Mehsud would ‘welcome’ Benazir Bhutto with a suicide bombing due to her provocative utterances against the Taliban and other militants. The Maulana was quick to issue a denial which was published in some newspapers.
Talking to The News, he even claimed that the reporter in question accepted his mistake and apologized to him after he confronted him and questioned the veracity of the report. “I was quoted out of context. I didn’t say all that was published in my name,” he argued.
However, sources said Maulana Saleh Shah, who belongs to Maulana Fazlur Rahman’s JUI-F, made some comments about the possibility of suicide bombings targeting Benazir Bhutto once she returned to Pakistan. As he has been meeting the elusive Baitullah Mehsud in his South Waziristan hideouts as part of tribal Jirgas that mediate between the militants and the government, it is normally assumed that he has access to the militants and their military commanders and enjoys their trust.
On a number of occasions, he has proved a timely source of information for the media about the events in South Waziristan. But the recent reports from South Waziristan suggest that Maulana Saleh Shah has lost some of that trust.
As Baitullah Mehsud and his spokesmen have made no statements threatening suicide attacks on Benazir Bhutto, one may well ask whether one should give credence to a statement made on their behalf by someone else. In this case, that ‘someone else’ is Senator Maulana Saleh Shah and he, too, has denied making any such statement on behalf of Baitullah Mehsud.
Reporters covering Waziristan, particularly those based in Wana, Miranshah, Tank and Dera Ismail Khan, pointed out that the only source of information for the tribal militants is radio, mostly the Pashto and Urdu services of BBC. “As the statement quoting Senator Maulana Saleh Shah wasn’t aired by any radio station and was only reported in an English newspaper, Baitullah Mehsud and his men seem to be unaware that he reportedly threatened Benazir Bhutto with suicide attack upon her arrival,” one of the reporters Irfan Burki based in Tank said.
Another reporter, Dilawar Wazir, who is based in Dera Ismail Khan, added that the militants don’t know what is being published about them in the newspapers or broadcast on television channels.
Though it is clear that Baitullah Mehsud hasn’t threatened Benazir Bhutto with suicide bombing, one should keep in mind that anyone intending to launch such an attack would not brag about it publicly. Benazir Bhutto has provoked the militants and Jihadis with some of her recent pro-US and anti-al-Qaeda and anti-Taliban statements and one should, therefore, not rule out the possibility of suicide bombings targeting her. But that could happen once she is in power and has the authority to order military operations against the militants. At present, she doesn’t possess the authority to cause harm to the militants and it appears that the latter would prefer to wait and see as to how she acts once she is in power.
, to Pakistan BB.
