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A28 WORLD NEWS
Tuesday 30 June 2020
Militants attack Karachi stock exchange, killing at least 3

By ADIL JAWAD militants who attacked the
Associated Press stock exchange.
KARACHI, Pakistan (AP) — At a news conference later
Militants attacked the stock Monday, Maj. Gen Omar
exchange in the Pakistani Ahmed Bokhari who over-
city of Karachi on Monday, seas the paramilitary Rang-
killing at least three people ers force, which took part
— two guards and a police- in the operation, accused
man, according to police. neighboring India of aiding
Special police forces de- the attackers, by allegedly
ployed to the scene of the activating "sleeper cells"
attack and in a swift opera- that Pakistan claims Indian
tion secured the building, intelligence has planted
killing all four gunmen. throughout the country.
A third security guard was India and Pakistan routinely
reported to be in critical exchange allegations of
condition following the as- using militant groups to at-
sault. tack the other country. The
There were no reports of two nuclear-armed neigh-
any wounded among the In this image made from a video, police and investigators gather around a car used by attackers, bors have fought three
brokers and employees in- in Karachi, Pakistan Monday, June 29, 2020. wars, two of them over the
side the exchange and a Associated Press disputed Himalayan moun-
separatist militant group tain region of Kashmir,
from a neighboring prov- ternational financial institu- thwarted. change to clear the build- which is divided between
ince later claimed respon- tions. Inside the stock exchange, ing of any explosive devis- the two but coveted by
sibility for the attack. Local television stations broker Yaqub Memon told es. both in its entirety.
The attackers were armed broadcast images of po- The Associated Press that Later, the Baluchistan Lib- The Baluchistan Liberation
with grenades and auto- lice in full body armor sur- he and others were hud- eration Army, claimed Army, which Pakistan says
matic rifles, police said. rounding the building but dled inside their offices responsibility for the at- has found safe across the
They launched the attack still staying outside the high- while the attack was un- tack. The group has been border in Afghanistan, has
by opening fire at the en- walled compound of the derway. As the firing end- waging an insurgency for carried out several attacks
trance gate of the Paki- stock exchange. ed and the gunmen were years, demanding inde- in Karachi in recent years,
stan Stock Exchange in Rizwan Ahmend, a police killed, police gathered all pendence for Pakistan's including an attack on the
the southern port city, the official at the scene, said the employees and brokers gas-rich southwestern Bal- Chinese Consulate in No-
country's financial center. that after opening fire, the in a single room while se- uchistan province, which vember 2018 that killed two
Heavily armed special gunmen entered the stock curity forces went floor by borders the southern Sindh people.
forces quickly surrounded exchange grounds. He said floor to ensure that no ex- province, where Karachi is Gen. Bukhari said Mon-
the building located in the that after the attack was plosives had been left be- the provincial capital. day's attack bore the same
heart of Karachi's financial over, food supplies were hind, he said. The group also circulated hallmarks as the Chinese
district, where the Pakistan found on the bodies of the Shazia Jehan, a police to the media a photograph Consulate attack, with the
State Bank is located, as gunmen, indicating they spokesman, said the bomb of four men in full body ar- level of coordination and a
well as the headquarters may have planned a long disposal team was also mor and camouflage out- large ammunition stockpile
of several national and in- siege, which police quickly called to the stock ex- fits, saying they were the found at the scene. q

Sale of sacred statues riles Black Lives Matter campaigners

By THOMAS ADAMSON As- million people die, many of propriated." In a statement courts have consistently
sociated Press starvation, trying to create to The Associated Press, the ruled in favor of auction
PARIS (AP) — A pair of sa- a state for the Igbo people. auction house said "these houses whose sales of sa-
cred statues that a Nigerian The Igbo are one of Nige- objects are being lawfully cred objects, such as Hopi
museum commission and ria's largest ethnic groups. sold having been publicly tribal masks, were con-
protesters claimed were Okeke-Agulu, who is Igbo, exhibited and previously tested by rights groups
looted during the coun- said the objects were sold over the last decades and representatives of the
try's 1960s civil war fetched taken through "an act of prior to Christie's involve- tribes.
212,500 euros ($239,000) at violence" and shouldn't be ment." Paris has a long history of
auction in Paris on Monday. sold. An online petition with Babatunde E. Adebiyi, le- collecting and selling tribal
The Igbo statues were sold the hashtags BlackArtsMat- gal adviser for the National artifacts, tied to its colo-
by the Christie's auction ter and MyHeritageMatters Commission for Museums nial past in Africa, and to
house, which defended collected more than 3,000 and Monuments of Nigeria Paris-based groups in the
the sale and said the art- signatures demanding the said they had contacted 1960s, such as the "Indian-
works were legitimately ac- auction be halted. Christie's on June 17 and ist" movement that cel-
In this undated photo issued
by Christie's auction house, quired. The petition said "as the had asked the auction ebrated indigenous tribal
two Igbo statues on display. A Princeton scholar, Chika world awakens to the real- house to suspend the sales cultures.
The pair of sacred statues, Okeke-Agulu, alongside ity of systemic racial injus- pending further investiga- Interest in tribal art in Paris
that a Nigerian museum Nigeria's National Commis- tice and inequality, thanks tion into their origins. was revived in the early
commission and protesters sion for Museums and Mon- to the #BlackLivesMatter "We are shocked the sales 2000s following two high-
claimed were looted during uments, raised alarm earlier movement, we must not went on," he told the AP. "It profile — and highly lucra-
the country's 1960s civil this month that the objects forget that it is not just the represents a major setback tive — sales in Paris of tribal
war fetched 212,500 euros
($239,000) at auction in Paris were looted during the Bi- Black body, but also Black in our effort to get our an- art owned by late collec-
on Monday, June 29, 2020. afran war in the late 1960s. culture, identity and espe- tiquities from abroad." tors Andre Breton and Rob-
Associated Press The war saw more than 1 cially art that is being misap- In recent years, French ert Lebel.q