02 Mar 2006

Karachi Explosions
Institute For Topical Studies, Chennai, India
Supplied note: "The latest paper of the Institute For Topical Studies, A-2/3, Bharathi Dasan Colony, K.K.Nagar, Chennai---600078, India, on the above subject is now available at the web site of the South Asia Analysis Group (SAAG), New Delhi, at [the URL below] - br."
Extract: "Four persons, including an American member of the staff of the US Consulate in Karachi, are reported to have been killed in a car bomb explosion near or in a car park of a hotel adjacent to the US Consulate on March 2, 2006 [...] The explosion of March 2 came two days before the visit of President George Bush, [...] While the Pakistani intelligence and security agencies should be able to provide effective security to Mr. Bush against the jihadi terrorist organisations, the presence of anti-Musharraf and anti-US elements in the Pakistani Army and Air Force and its intelligence agencies should be a matter of concern to the US authorities. Some of these elements had played an active role in the two unsuccessful attempts to kill Musharraf at Rawalpindi in December, 2003. - b. raman."
[The writer is Additional Secretary (retd), Cabinet Secretariat, Govt. of India, and, presently, Director, Institute For Topical Studies, Chennai - ed.]
URL http://www.saag.org/papers18/paper1715.html
Internet Archive (www.archive.org) [the paper was not archived at the time of this abstract. However, in a few weeks time it will be available at web.archive.org/web/*/www.saag.org]
Link reported by: B. Raman (corde--at--vsnl.com)
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