Posted on 01/19/2004 9:53:56 AM PST by knighthawk
KARACHI : Police in this southern port city have arrested a suspect in last week's bombing of a Christian Bible society and seized a huge cache of explosives, authorities said.
Shamim Ahmed, a Pakistani man allegedly affiliated with the Islamic militant group Lashkar-e-Jhangvi, was arrested Saturday in Karachi . Information he provided led police to the discovery late yesterday of a bomb-making factory in an abandoned house elsewhere in the city.
A senior police officer, who spoke on condition of anonymity, said Ahmed was believed to be linked to the Jan. 15 attack in which a grenade and powerful car bomb exploded at the Pakistan Bible Society, injuring 15 people.
Tariq Janeel, the deputy inspector-general of Karachi police, stopped short of saying Ahmed was linked to the attack, but told reporters it could not be ruled out.
At the unoccupied house in the poor Mehmoodabad district of southeastern Karachi , police seized a cache that included locally-made grenades, remote-control devices, parcel bombs and two ready-to-use bombs each weighing about 10 kilograms, Janeel said.
Ahmed was picked up Saturday by police in the Gulistan-e- Jauhar neighborhood in eastern Karachi , where seven al-Qaeda suspects were arrested yesterday, but there was no indication of any link between them and Ahmed.
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