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To: IQBAL LATIF who wrote (46323)	5/26/2004 12:15:11 PM
From: IQBAL LATIF	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 50167

The target of two car bombs that exploded on Wednesday in Karachi, killing at least one person and wounding 17, was a privately run English-language school and not the nearby residence of the United States consul general in the southern Pakistani port city, a US State Department official said. The official, citing information from received in Washington from US and Pakistani authorities in Karachi and Islamabad, said the car bombs were aimed at the Pakistan-American Cultural Centre (PACC) , which is not affiliated with the US government. "We have no connection with this facility," the official said on condition of anonymity. "There are no Americans on its staff and there were no Americans injured." The official said the PACC caters mainly to middle-class high school and college students seeking to improve their English language skills and that it appeared the bombers may have targeted the institution in the mistaken belief that it was connected with Washington. The home of the US consul general in Karachi is about 150m from the centre but was not damaged in in the blasts that Pakistani police and medical sources said killed a police guard and wounded 17 other people. Karachi police chief Tariq Jamil said the explosions occurred in two cars parked near the consul's residence and the adjacent PACC and called the blasts "an act of terrorism" that targeted "the US building".