HYDERABAD: Sindhudesh Revolutionary Army (SRA) claimed the twin blasts that targeted a Rangers vehicle in Larkana on Saturday, in pamphlets found by police at the scene, a police source said on Sunday.
The explosions which took place near a Rangers kiosk on Mirokhan Road had killed a soldier and injured 15 other people, including five Rangers personnel. The pamphlet said that the SRA had taken responsibility for the attack. Deputy Inspector General Larkana Abdullah Shaikh said that investigations were underway but no arrests had been made as yet.
“It is premature to say anything at this point in the backdrop of this pamphlet,” he said, adding that “responsibility for the blast is certainly claimed through this pamphlet.” The separatism movement in Sindh dates back to at least the early seventies when G M Syed gave the call for an independent ‘Sindhudesh’, a separate homeland for Sindhis.
Since then the nationalism in Sindh had taken on several different forms, ranging from those who choose to work for the province’s rights within the framework of Pakistan, to militant outfits that took to armed violence to support separatism.
The attack on the Rangers personnel came as the extension of Rangers’ policing powers from Karachi to the rest of Sindh was under consideration. Former Sindh chief minister Syed Qaim Ali Shah was set to make a decision on the issue when he was replaced by Pakistan People’s Party’s Murad Ali Shah.
Earlier this month, the paramilitary force had also released data regarding arrests made in the interior Sindh and claimed to have arrested 533 criminals since September 2013.
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