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Thursday, January 22, 2004

Pakistan (text reproduced here; link to changing page): Pakistani police arrested one suspect and seized a “huge” cache of explosives in Karachi over the weekend, declaring both were linked to grenade and car bomb explosions at a Bible Society shop on January 15. Suspect Shamim Ahmed, 25, a militant of the banned Lashkar-e-Jhangvi group, was arrested Saturday in a middle-class neighborhood of eastern Karachi. Information from Ahmed’s interrogations led police to a bomb-making factory in Karachi’s Mehmoodabad district, where Sunday night they discovered a store of heavy ammunition, detonators, grenades and two large bombs ready for use. At least 13 people were injured in last Thursday’s two blasts, occurring 15 minutes apart shortly after 3 p.m. at the Karachi branch of the Pakistan Bible Society. “The people who are doing this are not friends of Pakistan,” Bible Society director Anthony Lamuel told Compass. After touring the bombing scene with Lamuel and Anglican Bishop John Alexander Malik, the governor of Sindh promised that damages caused to the shop and the adjacent cathedral compound would be repaired at government expense. (Compass Direct)

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