AGL 41.50 Increased By ▲ 2.96 (7.68%)
AIRLINK 128.00 Decreased By ▼ -1.50 (-1.16%)
BOP 6.26 Increased By ▲ 0.65 (11.59%)
CNERGY 4.13 Increased By ▲ 0.27 (6.99%)
DCL 8.44 Decreased By ▼ -0.29 (-3.32%)
DFML 40.69 Decreased By ▼ -1.07 (-2.56%)
DGKC 87.90 Decreased By ▼ -0.40 (-0.45%)
FCCL 34.10 Decreased By ▼ -0.90 (-2.57%)
FFBL 66.33 Decreased By ▼ -1.02 (-1.51%)
FFL 10.56 Decreased By ▼ -0.05 (-0.47%)
HUBC 108.70 Decreased By ▼ -0.06 (-0.06%)
HUMNL 14.46 Decreased By ▼ -0.20 (-1.36%)
KEL 4.65 Decreased By ▼ -0.10 (-2.11%)
KOSM 7.33 Increased By ▲ 0.38 (5.47%)
MLCF 42.72 Increased By ▲ 1.07 (2.57%)
NBP 60.84 Increased By ▲ 1.24 (2.08%)
OGDC 178.97 Decreased By ▼ -4.03 (-2.2%)
PAEL 25.70 Decreased By ▼ -0.55 (-2.1%)
PIBTL 6.06 Increased By ▲ 0.09 (1.51%)
PPL 146.15 Decreased By ▼ -0.55 (-0.37%)
PRL 24.91 Increased By ▲ 1.30 (5.51%)
PTC 16.14 Decreased By ▼ -0.42 (-2.54%)
SEARL 70.20 Increased By ▲ 1.90 (2.78%)
TELE 7.22 Decreased By ▼ -0.01 (-0.14%)
TOMCL 36.20 Increased By ▲ 0.25 (0.7%)
TPLP 7.84 Decreased By ▼ -0.01 (-0.13%)
TREET 15.59 Increased By ▲ 1.39 (9.79%)
TRG 50.36 Decreased By ▼ -0.09 (-0.18%)
UNITY 26.90 Increased By ▲ 0.15 (0.56%)
WTL 1.24 Increased By ▲ 0.03 (2.48%)
BR100 9,795 Decreased By -11.1 (-0.11%)
BR30 29,647 Decreased By -31.2 (-0.1%)
KSE100 92,021 Decreased By -282.9 (-0.31%)
KSE30 28,665 Decreased By -175.5 (-0.61%)

Panic once again gripped Islamabad international airport on Thursday when a veiled suspected suicide bomber was arrested by the Airport Security Force (ASF) officials during search. Following recovery of a bag from the possession of the suspected bomber, red-alert was announced in and outside the airport to make a search operation to avoid any untoward incident, the ASF sources told Business Recorder.
The suspected suicide bomber was clad in a Burqa when security officials got suspicious and stopped him for security check. When asked to remove veil, he refused to do so, but when the veil was removed forcefully, the security officials found a bearded man under Burqa, the security officials said, adding that the suspect was taken into custody by ASF and other law-enforcement agencies for investigation.
They declined to announce the name of the suspect, saying that it would cause hurdles in investigation to reach the entire network. Police and the ASF officials started complete search of the airport to check if there is any other collaborator of the suspect at the airport.
Sudden cordoning off by police and other security agencies caused panic among people, who were present at the airport, including employees of the Civil Aviation Authority (CAA) and different airlines and cargo agencies, passengers and relatives of passengers. Women and children started crying and were being consoled by the officials.
It was second time during last two weeks, when the security at airport was put on high alert and a full search operation was launched. It is pertinent to note that on September 25, a hoax call was received at PIA office in Karachi, threatening that suicide bombers have entered the airport and may detonate an explosive device any time. Complete security alert was in effect inside and outside the airport and heavy contingent of police, ASF and other law-enforcement agencies cordoned off the area.

Copyright Business Recorder, 2008

Comments

Comments are closed.