KARACHI - Investigators have failed to probe attacks on vice principal of the Jinnah Medical Dental College (JMDC), who is a US citizen, and the target killing of SHO Preedy.
Militants claiming their association with IS or Daish claimed the responsibility of the attack on the vice principal, Debra Lobo, 55, when she was on her way to home from college.
Armed pillion riders shot her twice in her cheek and shoulder at Shaheed-e-Millat Road while she was immediately rushed to a private hospital for treatment where doctors termed her condition out of danger.
Following the incident, police have registered an FIR No 273/15 under Sections 324 of the Pakistan Penal Code and 7 of the anti-terrorism act. The case was registered at the Ferozabad police station on behalf of victim’s husband, Christopher Lobo against unidentified assailants.
Ferozabad SHO Aurangzeb Khattak said that they are investigating with different angles. “Police is trying to investigate the involvement of the same group who threw leaflets claiming affiliation with IS after attacking the vice principal”, he said.
Meanwhile, Police officials investigating the case of Preedy SHO Aijaz Khawaja, who was killed on Thursday, have so far been unable to ascertain the actual motive behind the murder. Police ruled out the connection between the killing and other police officers killed in the same police station. Police said that an FIR No 205/15 under Sections 302/34 and 7 ATA has been registered against unidentified persons on behalf of state.
Meanwhile, Additional IG Karachi Ghulam Qadir Thebo has announced Rs3 million each for those who will help the police to arrest culprits involved in attacking vice-principal and SHO. Police chief Thebo also constituted committees to probe the incidents.
AFP adds: She is recovering in the hospital after being shot by suspected militants has made an "immeasurable" contribution to the medical college where she works, a colleague said on Friday.
Debra Lobo, 55, is conscious and in a stable condition in hospital in Karachi after being shot once in the cheek and once in the arm on Thursday.Leaflets dropped at the scene of the attack said Lobo was targeted because of her nationality and vowed more attacks on Americans.
Baqar Nawab, the administrator of Jinnah Medical and Dental College, where Lobo is assistant professor of community health, hailed what she has done since joining in 1996.
"She has a huge contribution towards the growth of this college," Nawab told AFP."We can never find her replacement and her contribution is immeasurable."
Nawab said Lobo, who is married to a Pakistani Christian, was hugely popular among students. "We got a lot of calls from former students of the college who are now serving as doctors in America. They were all very much concerned about her," the administrator said.
Nawab said Lobo had never been threatened and had completely integrated into the Pakistani way of life, adopting local dress and speaking Urdu fluently.
"She wears shalwar kameez, and she carries herself in the perfect way the local values call for," he said. "She is more mistaken for a Pashtun or Central Asian lady rather than an American woman."