Islamabad court attack: Reports reveal terrorists arrived from North Waziristan
Investigation reveals police was alerted about terrorists days before the attack.
ISLAMABAD (Dunya News) -- Startling revelations in Islamabad court attack investigation tie the culprits to North Waziristan who had arrived in Rawalpindi via Bannu, Dunya News reported.
Investigation sources reveal the burka-clad terrorists reached Pir Wadhai stop of Rawalpindi and that the Islamabad police was alerted of their arrival on Friday, days before the attack took place.
Investigation sources reveal the police was alerted in writing adding the movements of culprits from Pir Wadhai point are still unknown.
Earlier, during case proceedings following a suo moto by chief justice, the bench asked the federal interior secretary about the number of policemen who were actually deployed at the F-8 Islamabad Kachehri on Monday. The interior secretary replied that 47 policemen were on duty at the time of the incident yesterday.
The interior secretary in his report stated that the police reached the site of the attack within seven minutes.
On this, Justice Khilji Arif Hussain said that if the police had reached in seven minutes, the loss would have been less.
He added that it took the police around 45 minutes to reach the district courts.
Meanwhile, the apex court ordered that closed-circuit television (CCTV) cameras of high resolution should be installed in district courts within 48 hours in order to avoid attacks.
In this regard, notices were issued to chief secretaries of the four provinces.
Subsequently, the case hearing was adjourned till Monday.
Eleven people including a judge were killed on Monday in a gun and suicide bomb attacks on a court complex in Islamabad, a rare strike at the heart of the heavily-guarded Pakistani capital.
The Tehreeke-e-Taliban denied any connection to the tragic attack, which came two days after the militants announced a month-long ceasefire aimed at restarting stalled peace talks with the government.
A spokesman for the Ahrar-ul-Hind militant group, which recently split from the main Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) umbrella group, claimed resonsibility of the attack.
