Rawalpindi: Making a major breakthrough, Pakistan police has arrested one person in connection with Tuesday?s car blast outside an American KFC fast food outlet in Karachi.
"We have arrested the man who is responsible for this. We are trying to find out whom he is representing and his motive," President Pervez Musharraf said in Karachi on Wednesday.
He said there have been no fresh arrests of al-Qaeda in the recent days.
On Tuesday, a powerful car bomb exploded outside an American fastfood outlet KFC killing six people and injuring 14.
A lesser-known group called 'Baluchistan National Army' (BNA) claimed responsibility for the blast, which took place ahead of the international donors' conference in Karachi on November 19.
UN Secretary General Kofi Annan was expected to participate in the conference to raise $5.2 billion aid for reconstruction of quake-hit areas of North West Frontier Province and Pakistan-occupied Kashmir (PoK).
The blast destroyed the KFC outlet and damaged two luxury hotels, Pearl Continental and Sheraton situated in the vicinity.
Karachi, the biggest commercial city of Pakistan, has been the scene of several bomb attacks in the past.
In September, several people were wounded when a KFC and a McDonald restaurant were bombed.
In May, six people were killed when protesters set fire to a KFC outlet in the city, during clashes between different religious groups.
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