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| Pak forms special team to probe Marriott blast | | | ISLAMABAD | JAN 27
Pakistan has formed a special team to probe the suicide attack on the Marriott hotel, hours before the Indian High Commissioner held a Republic Day reception there, even as security was hightened across major cities and airports of the country.
Interior Secretary Sayed Kamal Shah said a special unit of the Federal Investigation Agency (FIA), headed by a DIG, has been formed to investigate the blast.
A suicide bomber yesterday tried to storm the hotel hours before a reception there by Indian High Commissioner Satyabrata Pal to mark the Republic Day, killing himself and a security guard and injuring seven others.
The investigators apparently were still clueless about the attack and had no idea why the bomber tried to enter the hotel from the side entrance, which is either used in emergency or by the hotel staff.
Questions like why they tried to enter several hours before the Republic Day reception and the real target of the attack were being probed, Shah said.
Civil Aviation Authority spokesman Pervez George said, the stepped up security was a natural consequence of the attack on the hotel, although there was no specific threat to any of the airports.
All vehicles entering the airport premises were being searched thoroughly and all visitors and the airlines' staff were subject to body and baggage searches, media reports quoted Airport Security Force (ASF) sources as saying adding that because of this, long queues could be seen outside the airports.
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