KARACHI: The heads of the civilian and security establishments are reported to have decided to carry out a ‘security audit’ following brazen attack at the building of Karachi Police Office (KPO) which came under attack on Friday evening by armed militants.
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In a statement issued to media late last night, a spokesperson for the Karachi police said that all three terrorists who attacked the KPO had been killed in the operation. The spokesperson said that this was a “major operation” in which senior police officials, including the South and East DIGs, had participated alongside the Rangers and the army.
DIG East Muqaddas Haider told media that there were a total of three attackers who arrived at the KPO in a Toyota Corolla, adding that one of the attackers blew himself up on the building’s fourth floor while two others were shot dead on the roof.
Sindh Health Department’s spokesperson Mehar Khursheed shared a list of the casualties with media, saying four people were brought to the Jinnah Postgraduate Medical Centre (JPMC) dead, and 19 injured.
Similarly, Sindh government spokesperson Murtaza Wahab gave a breakdown of the deceased, saying they included two policemen, one Rangers official and one civilian.
The attack at KPO has raised several questions, including the one that despite being No Soft Target, how come the attackers managed to not only approach the building but infiltrated deep into it, inflicting casualties.
Without mentioning the term ‘security lapse’, civilian and security officials however agreed that administration in Sindh failed to wake up after recent Peshawar attack, and against this backdrop it was a matter of grave concern as to how militants had succeeded in sneaking into the police headquarters.
Multiple sources privy to the top level developments disclosed that civilian and security establishments have decided to carry out a ‘proper exercise’, including the ‘security audit’ with need to revisit as to how secure the security offices and buildings were.
