A blast reported at the main state-run university in Karachi today was probably caused by a firecracker, police said.
“It was a low-intensity blast and was caused most likely by a cracker,” Karachi police chief Fayyaz Leghari told Reuters.
Leghari said three people were wounded in the incident, though a senior university official estimated at least six.
“The blast took place outside the main cafeteria of the university and at least six people were wounded,” said Kaleem Raza Khan, registrar of the University of Karachi.
This is the first such incident at an educational institution in Karachi, though the campus often sees regular violent clashes between rival student groups.
Leghari said the incident today might be related to these rivalries but added police were investigating.
Last year, two suicide bomb blasts at the International Islamic University in Islamabad killed six people, including the bombers, and wounded at least 20.
Karachi, Pakistan’s biggest city, has been subject to recent instability. The dominant political force, the Muttahida Qaumi Movement, said yesterday that its two ministers in the federal cabinet would resign, in a move that raises questions about the government’s future.
The movement said in a statement that the ministers’ resignations were a first step and a decision on whether to stay part of the federal as well as the provincial Sindh government would be taken soon.
The MQM cited corruption, and issues over law and order and rising prices among the reasons for the decisions to leave the cabinet.
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