ISLAMABAD: Federal Interior Minister Rana Sanaullah has said that the involvement of ‘foreign hands’ cannot be ruled out in attack on Karachi Police Office (KPO) building on Friday evening.
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Talking to private TV channel the other day, he said it was too early to determine which terror outfit could be behind the attack on the Karachi Police Office. The banned outfit TTP, meanwhile, had claimed responsibility for the attack.
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The interior minister said he had received a briefing on the attack from the Inspector General of Sindh Police Ghulam Nabi Memon and the Sindh chief secretary, adding that it was apparent that police personnel were the target of the attack like Peshawar incident.
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He said as per the Karachi Top cop AIG Javeed Akhter Odho, the terrorist had reached the third floor (the top floor of the building) where armed guards and other police officers had engaged the attackers.
Asked whether he had any prior knowledge about a threat to the attack, Sanaullah denied any such threat alert. “There was a general threat of terrorism across the country but there was no specific threat for this office,” he added.
