KARACHI: The Counter-Terrorism Department on Friday released a sketch of the purported mastermind of the Karachi University suicide attack that had claimed life of three Chinese teachers and their local driver.

CTD official Raja Umer Khattab said that they considered the suspect, Zaib Brohi alias Zoib, as the ‘mastermind’ of the deadly suicide blast carried out by a woman and whose responsibility was claimed by the banned Balochistan Libe­ration Army.

He said with help of CCTV footage and held suspect Dad Bux, the investigators had got prepared the sketch of Zaib by an artist.

“Zaib is an important character of the KU blast... in fact, he is the mastermind,”he said.

Suspect Dad Bux, who facilitated the blast, was trained by Zaib in Afghanistan. “It was Zaib who has prepared the suicide jacket used in the blast,” the official added.

In April, a female suicide bomber, Shari Baloch, detonated herself outside KU’s Confucius Institute killing three Chinese teachers and their local driver.

Published in Dawn, July 23rd, 2022

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