Additional Inspector General of Karachi Police, GhulamNabi Memon revealed on Tuesday that threats of an attack on the Pakistan Stock Exchange were received earlier as well due to which security in the area had been beefed up. Memon, speaking to a TV channel, said that the perpetrators of the attack had support from Karachi and said that it seemed as if the attack was not the work of a single organisation. “It seems that the mastermind of the Chinese consulate and Pakistan Stock Exchange attacks is the same,” said the AIG. He added that there were a lot of similarities between the two attacks, saying that a lot of sleeper cells had been activated in the port city. Memon shared that at the time of the attack, the militants did not have any backup with them. Security forces on Monday foiled an attempt made by four militants to storm the Pakistan Stock Exchange, the busiest building on Karachi’s II Chundrigar Road. “Basically, RAW was the mastermind of both the Chinese consulate and PSX attacks,” CTD chief Raja UmerKhattab told media. “Their aim was to damage Pakistan’s image in the world as well as hit the economy of our country.” Khattab said that RAW orchestrated the entire thing: it planned, funded and ordered the PSX attack for the BLA to carry out.
