KARACHI: Three policemen were injured in a grenade attack on a police station in Pakistan’s commercial capital of Karachi, police said on Saturday, a day after a deadly bombing in the country’s northwest killed six people.
Karachi, which is home to over 15 million people, has a history of attacks on police by organized gangs involved in drug trafficking and land grabbing as well as by militant groups.
Mehzor Ali, a senior superintendent of police (SSP), said unidentified men lobbed a hand grenade incident the Preedy police station in Karachi’s Saddar business district at 12:16am on Saturday.
“No group has claimed responsibility for the attack,” he told reporters in Karachi. “Bomb disposal squad has been summoned and the incident is being investigated.”
The development came a day after a deadly bombing killed a top cleric among six people at a mosque in Pakistan’s northwestern Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (KP) province, according to officials.
The blast occurred during Friday prayers at Darul Uloom Haqqania, one of Pakistan’s largest and most influential religious seminaries.
Separately on Friday, nine people, including a paramilitary troop, were injured in a roadside blast in Quetta in the southwestern Balochistan province, police said.
No group has claimed responsibility for Friday’s attacks either, but Pakistan has been battling twin insurgencies — one mounted by religiously motivated groups like the Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) in the country’s northwest and the other by ethnic Baloch separatists in Balochistan.
Three cops injured in grenade attack in Pakistan’s Karachi day after deadly bombing in northwest
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Three cops injured in grenade attack in Pakistan’s Karachi day after deadly bombing in northwest
- No group has so far claimed responsibility for the attack on the police station in Karachi’s Saddar
- Pakistan, battling twin insurgencies, has witnessed a surge in militant violence in recent months
Pakistan PM praises stuntman ‘Sultan Golden’ for breaking record for fastest reverse car driving
- Sultan Muhammad Khan drove one mile in reverse in just 57 seconds to set new world record, local media widely reported
- Khan previously broke world record for longest motorbike ramp jump in 1987, managing a 249-feet long jump in Lahore
ISLAMABAD: Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif and President Asif Ali Zardari praised renowned stuntman Sultan Muhammad Khan, popularly known as “Sultan Golden,” for breaking the world record for fastest reverse driving a car on Saturday.
As per local media reports, Khan achieved the feat in the capital of Pakistan’s southwestern Balochistan province Quetta, when he drove one mile in reserve in just 57 seconds.
“Sultan Golden has made Pakistan proud across the world,” Sharif said in a statement released by his office.
The Pakistani prime minister said his government is committed to providing all possible facilities in every field of sports.
Zardari also heaped praise on the stuntman for setting the new world record.
“He said the achievement reflects the skill, courage and dedication of Pakistanis, strengthening Pakistan’s positive image globally and wished him continued success,” the president’s official X account wrote.
Khan has been performing stunts since the 1980s in Pakistan, a country where motorsports does not gain traction due to a lack of infrastructure and popularity of other sports such as cricket, football and squash.
Khan, who hails from the southwestern city of Pasni, earned the nickname ‘Golden’ early on in his youth for his iconic curly golden hair.
In March 1987, he entered his name in the Guinness Book of World Records when he performed the longest motorbike ramp jump in Lahore. Khan managed a 249-feet long jump, beating the previous record by two feet.
