Terror Threats Closes Pakistan Schools

In the southern Sindh province, which is home to Pakistan’s financial capital Karachi, 50 000 schools and colleges have shut down until Sunday according to several news reports.

Pakistani schools and colleges have closed because of fears about militant attacks after twin suicide bombings at a university campus on Tuesday, officials said.
The federal government and armed forces already announced that they were closing their schools as a precaution against terrorism.

Two suicide bombers attacked the International Islamic University in Islamabad on Tuesday, killing four students and wounding at least 18 others. The bombers struck at mid-afternoon inside a women’s cafeteria and a faculty office in the Islamic law department at the school, which is popular with foreign students.
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“This is an internal security lapse. We have already advised the educational institutions to tighten their security,” Interior Minister Rehman Malik told reporters after the Islamabad university blasts on Tuesday.

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Karachi – Suspicious Envelopes Containing White Powder Delivered To US Embassy

The US embassy in the federal capital and its consulate in Karachi have received suspicious envelopes containing an unidentified white color substance, sparking a security alert, according to embassy and other security officials on Sunday.

The officials told The Post that the embassy received a packet by mail containing an unidentified substance. Embassy spokesman Lou Fintor confirmed that the embassy had received a mysterious envelop as well. Read more