little over a month after a similar attack in Gulshan-e-Iqbal.
Nobody was hurt in the attack as students were attending classes. Only a watchman was present at the gate and he remained unhurt.
However, the attack created an atmosphere of fear and panic at the school. Police, Rangers and parents rushed to the scene as the school was evacuated and children were sent home.
Police said two men riding a motorcycle threw the explosive outside the Beaconhouse School in Block-B of North Nazimabad.
They also left behind a note, both in Urdu and English, threatening to attack schools following missionary, military and foreign educational systems, their owners, principals and teachers in retaliation against the hanging of their colleagues in the country’s jails.
Case registered
The North Nazimabad police registered a case (FIR No 53/15) against unidentified persons for throwing explosive material outside a private school on Wednesday morning.
An official of the North Nazimabad police said the case had been lodged on behalf of the state unidentified culprits under Section 7 of Anti-Terrorism Act and extortion clauses in the Pakistan Penal Code.
New office set up
The new Karachi Police Office established behind Saddar police station was inaugurated on Thursday.
The city police chief and his staff, along with DIG Admin and the Karachi police’s media cell have been relocated to the newly-established facility, which will also supervise FIR registered online.
Commenting on recent killings of police personnel in Karachi, the city police chief claimed that the murders of four police officials in Preedy and Aram Bagh areas had been targeted by terrorists while those killed in Banaras and Ferozabad areas had been attacked by drug peddlers and dacoits, respectively.
On the other hand, he said, the traffic warden killed near Clifton Bridge was also murdered over some personal enmity.