Quetta: The banned outfit Lashkar-e-Jhangvi (LeJ), which claimed attack on Kirani road area of Quetta, killing 89 people has threatened to carry out more attacks on the Hazara community and government installations.
According to media reports, the threat was hurled by Abu Bakar Siddiq, the spokesman of the LeJ’s Balochistan chapter in phone calls he had made after the February 16 Kirani Road suicide bombing.
The LeJ spokesman warned the government to immediately shift its under-trial militants from the high-security Anti Terrorism Force (ATF) Jail in Quetta Cantonment to the Central Jail Hudda in the provincial metropolis or get ready to face another suicide assault by its Fidayeen attackers – this time targeting the ATF prison.
The ATF jail in Quetta, where those charged with involvement in terrorist activities are held, is notorious for severe tales of torture during interrogation. Most of the prisoners there are either Baloch nationalists or the LeJ militants.
It is to be mentioned here that the LeJ also claimed responsibility of the February 16 attacks and said “The vehicle bomb at Alamdar Road was blown up by our colleague Umar Farooq. The government should be under no illusion now that the imposition of the Governor’s Rule in Balochistan has failed to dissuade us from targeting our enemy — the Shia Hazaras. We want to make it clear to the Shia Hazaras that they should not consider themselves safe and secure till the establishment of the Islamic Caliphate in Pakistan”.
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