Man thought to be Karachi suicide bomber walks home!

ISLAMABAD - One of the two men suspected to be involved in Thursday’s suicide attack on a shrine in Pakistan’s Karachi city has returned home, a media report said Saturday.

Naseebullah Gul, whose name police had announced as one of the suicide bombers who struck at Hazrat Abdullah Shah Ghazis shrine in Karachi, arrived home late Friday, Geo News reported.

The twin blasts targeting the shrine of 8th century Sufi saint Abdullah Shah Ghazi, left nine dead and injured 55 people.

The first blast was carried out at the walk-through gate to break the security cordon, while the second occurred at the stairs of the shrine, where hundreds of devotees were present.

Gul’s brother and father were arrested after they reached the hospital for identifying his body. Both of them have now been set free.

Pakistan’s Interior Minister Rehman Malik had earlier said that “the attacker has been identified from his body parts and he belonged to the Mehsud tribe”.

Mehsuds are an influential clan in the Waziristan area along the Afghanistan border in the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province, where the Pakistani army is involved in an offensive against Taliban militants.