At least 39 people were injured in a cracker bomb attack on a rally of Jamaat-e-Islami (JI) in Gulshan-e-Iqbal Town of Karachi, the provincial capital of Sindh on August 5, reports Samaa TV. The Kashmir rally was on its way near the Baitul Mukarram mosque when an unidentified person threw a cracker bomb from the opposite side of the road. Hafiz Naeemur Rehman, who was leading the rally, urged party workers to cooperate with law enforcement agencies. In a statement, the JI Karachi leader said the attack was carried out by “coward agents of Indian [intelligence agency] R&AW”. The Sindhudesh Revolutionary Army (SRA) has claimed responsibility for the attack through its social media account.
Separately, Security Forces (SFs) and intelligence agencies suspectedly arrested two Baloch men from Khairpur District of Sindh on August 4, and transferred them to an unknown location, reports The Balochistan Post. The family sources of the mentioned persons told The Balochistan Post, that two brothers, Kachi Khan Marri and Zaamur Khan Marri, residents of Khairpur, have taken into custody by Pakistani forces around midnight during a raid on their house. Their family expressed fear that the abductees could be extra-judicially killed like other Baloch missing persons and they appealed to the human rights organisations to play their role for the safe recovery of aforementioned persons.