[5] By 1988, KGB and KhAD agents were able to penetrate deep inside Pakistan and carry out attacks on mujahideen sanctuaries and guerrilla bases.

[7] Afghanistan's KHAD was one of four secret service agencies accused of perpetrating terrorist bombings in multiple Pakistani cities including Islamabad, Lahore, Karachi, and Rawalpindi during the early 1980s resulting in hundreds of civilian casualties.

As a result, munitions and rockets expelled by the blast killed 93 people and wounded 1,010 others, although it’s believed the death toll was much higher.

[12][13] U.S. Defense Department officials believed that the explosion at Ojhri Camp was the work of the Soviet KGB and the Afghan KhAD state intelligence agency.

[14] It was a routine flight scheduled from Karachi to Peshawar, but the hijackers diverted it to Kabul, Afghanistan, and then Damascus, where the hostage situation ended with the release of prisoners by the Pakistani government.

The sociologist strongly believed that these killings were planned to spread more fear in the city, which could be the intention of KHAD and the motive behind the murders.