ISLAMABAD – The man who blew himself up at a Mastung election rally on July13 and killed nearly 150 people, including Balochistan Awami Partycandidate Siraj Raisani, was a student at a seminary in Karachi beforebeing shifted to Afghanistan along with his family, where he got militancytraining, it emergedThe alleged suicide bomber has been identified by authorities as HafeezAbbasi, a young man in his early 20s.

Sources in the Sindh police’s Counter-Terrorism Department said that theircounterparts in Balochistan had shared with them a preliminary report ofthe suicide explosion and they carried out further work here.

Law enforcers believe IS is flourishing in Pak-Afghan border areaThe CTD-Quetta had provided fingerprints of an unclaimed body to theCTD-Sindh to match it with the record of the National Database andRegistration Authority. It transpired that the alleged suicide bomber was aresident of Gharibabad Mohalla in Dhabeji, Thatta.

A special CTD team was immediately sent there on July 17 and to their uttersurprise, his father, Mohammed Nawaz, without any hesitation told them thathis son Hafeez had been shifted to Afghanistan’s Spin Boldak area.

Three sisters, two brothers living in Afghanistan Mr Nawaz, who is livingwith another son, Haq Nawaz, in Thatta also told the CTD team that not onlyHafeez but his wife, his two other sons and three daughters had also beenshifted to Afghanistan.