One person died and seven were injured when a powerful bomb exploded in a car parked near Peshawar High Court and Nishtar Hall buildings here on Tuesday. After the incident the building of the Peshawar High Court was sealed off and court proceedings were suspended.
The explosive device was planted in Suzuki Alto parked outside the boundary wall of the PHC near Nishtar Hall, which went up with a big bang at 10:35 am. A number of vehicles, including the land cruiser of City District Nazim Haji Ghulam Ali, which was also parked near the court, were damaged. The District Nazim was inside the court building. The blast was so severe that the windowpanes of the nearby-parked vehicles and nearby situated PHC bar room were also broken.
Those injured, including Umar, the sugarcane juice selling vendor and his five-year-old son, Constable Mohammad Amin Jan, Fazalullah, Abdul Hadi, Itbar Gul, and others. According to eyewitnesses, the severity of the blast could be judged from the throwing of one injured from one side of the road to other of the busy Sher Shah Suri Road connecting City and Cantonment areas.
After the blast the law-enforcement agencies rushed to the spot and the bomb disposal squad started investigation in the explosive device used in the blast.
According to Capital City Police Officer (CCPO) Abdul Majeed Marwat, it was locally made bomb, comprising three-kg of explosive.
The police have constituted an inquiry team headed by SSP (Investigation) Qazi Jameel-ur-Rehman, which has collected the parts of the registration of the vehicle and contacted the department of excise and taxation in this regard. "The vehicle used in the blast is likely to be stolen one," added police sources.
Meanwhile, the NWFP Local Government and Rural Development Minister Sardar Muhammad Idrees has said that terrorists cannot go scot-free as he said the nation is quite united for checking them and foiling their nefarious designs.
Talking to the attendants and general people, he inquired after the health of the injured of bomb blast near Peshawar High Court building at the Lady Reading Hospital, Peshawar, on Tuesday. The provincial minister categorically clarified that there was no room of terrorism in Islam. He said that basic aim of such elements was sabotaging the peace and development process and fulfilling the nefarious designs of their alien masters that could not be allowed.
Sardar Idrees while referring to the law and order situation in NWFP and lack of resources with the provincial government in this regard, expressed the confidence that federal government would fully cooperate and not only resources would be provided to recruit 15,000 police Jawans but also the FC platoons appointed in other provinces would be returned without which, he said, peace, law and order could not be ensured in the province. The minister asked the hospital administration to focus on proper treatment of the injured.
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