At least two persons were injured today when unknown armed men targeted the offices of two media houses in Pakistan's financial capital Karachi, police said.
According to the police, a security guard and a driver were injured when two men on a motorcycle threw a hand grenade at the entrance of the Business Recorder House.
The BR houses the Business Recorder newspaper and Aaj TV channel.
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TV footage showed two men stopping in front of the gate and one of them calmly getting down and throwing the grenade.
In a similar incident, two men threw a hand grenade at the entrance of the Waqt TV office, which is located in the same vicinity. The grenade didn't explode.
Militants have carried out attacks against the Express media group in the past.
The Tehrik-e-Taliban Pakistan spokesman Shahidullah Shahid had warned television channels to change their ways or they would also be targeted.
The Taliban had claimed responsibility for a recent attack on a Express van in which three staffers were killed.