Around 200 kilogrammes of explosives were used in the suicide attack on Superintendent of Police (SP) Crime Investigation Department (CID) Chaudhry Aslam in Karachi, Express News reported on Friday.
The Inspector General Sindh had previously said that at least 20-25 kilograms of explosives were used in the blast.
A resolution was passed in the Senate for recognition of Aslam’s services.
Earlier today, it was reported that a pickup truck was used in the attack.
According to sources, parts of the truck and pieces of blue plastic cans were found at the crime scene. The explosive material was kept in blue cans on top of the pickup truck, the sources revealed.
The driver of a police mobile in Aslam’s squad confirmed that a pickup truck was used in the attack, the sources added.
On January 9, the suicide blast by the Tehreek-i-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) had killed arguably Pakistan’s best known police-commander, Aslam, near Essa Nagri at the Lyari Expressway.
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Shortly after the attack, TTP spokesperson in Mohmand, Sajjad Mohmand, had told Express News that the group had carried out a “successful” attack to take revenge for several Taliban members killed by the police. The TTP had also carried out an attack on Aslam’s house in 2011.
Aslam, the famed and fearless police officer had 29 years of experience behind him, and ran an elaborate intelligence network across Karachi’s complex web of alliances and bitter, bloody rivalries.
Over the years, he had amassed a fortune just from gathering bounties over the dozens of militants and wanted criminals in the country.
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The bomber smashed his vehicle into Aslam’s convoy and he and two other policemen were killed, senior CID officer Iqbal Mehmood had stated.
The blast was so powerful that it threw the shattered wreckage of Aslam’s vehicle some 20 metres from where it was hit.
