The Counter-Terrorism Department of Balochistan Police registered a first information report (FIR) of the May 17 terror attack on Frontier Corps Help Centre on Saturday.
According to police, the case was registered under the name of an FC constable, Abdul Shakoor, 24 hours after the attack. The case includes sections on murder, attempted murder and anti-terrorism, police said.
Five security personnel were injured in the attack when five terrorists tried to drive their explosives-laden vehicle into the premises of the FC centre. One of the injured, motorway police officer Mohammad Idrees, succumbed to the wounds a day later. Security personnel deployed at the centre gunned down all the five terrorists. Eyewitnesses said they heard multiple explosions and sounds of sporadic gunfire. The area where the attack took place is mostly residential, with a few government buildings also located in the vicinity. According to the Inter-Services Public Relations, the military’s media wing, the attempt was in response to the killing of a key terrorist a day earlier in Killi Almas.
A day before the terrorism attempt on FC office, security forces had killed a key leader of Lashkar-e-Jhangvi, along with two other terrorists, involved in the killings of more than 100 people of the Hazara community and police personnel.
Colonel Sohail Abid of the Military Intelligence was martyred during the operation, ISPR had said.
Published in Daily Times, May 20th 2018.
