A suicide blast shook Pakistan’s federal capital on Tuesday, leaving at least 12 people martyred and 21 others injured outside the kachehri (district court) building, according to police sources. Officials said the explosion took place in a car parked near the court premises. The injured reportedly included both petitioners and lawyers who were present in the area at the time. Following the blast, the court building was immediately evacuated, and all proceedings were suspended as security personnel cleared the vicinity. Those inside were safely moved out through the rear exit. Senior officials, including the Islamabad Deputy Inspector General (DIG), the chief commissioner, and the forensic team, arrived at the scene shortly after the explosion. Rescue teams and law enforcement agencies shifted the deceased and injured to nearby hospitals. An emergency was declared at PIMS Hospital to treat the victims. Sources later confirmed that the head of the suspected suicide bomber was recovered from the site. Investigators have indicated that the attack was carried out by India-backed militants in collaboration with the Afghan Taliban’s proxy group, Fitna al-Khawarij. The incident follows a militant infiltration a day earlier at the Wana Cadet College in South Waziristan, where India-backed terrorists targeted the military institution on Monday. Security forces eliminated two attackers and trapping three inside, the Inter-Services Public Relations (ISPR) said. Rising terrorism Pakistan has been grappling with rising terror incidents, particularly in KP and Balochistan, since the Afghan Taliban regime took power in 2021. Since then, terrorists have carried out hundreds of cross-border terror attacks in Pakistan, leading to the martyrdom of soldiers and countless civilians, including women and children. During the first eight months of 2025, KP alone recorded over 600 terror incidents, resulting in the martyrdom of at least 138 civilians and 79 police personnel. Pakistan has long urged the Afghan Taliban regime to prevent its soil from being used to launch attacks inside Pakistan. The cross-border terrorism also resulted in tense border clashes between forces from the two neighbouring countries in October. Pakistan struck multiple Taliban posts along the border on October 12 after they, aided by affiliated militants, resorted to unprovoked firing. Pakistan’s retaliatory strikes resulted in the killing of over 200 Afghan Taliban and affiliated militants. As many as 23 Pakistani soldiers also embraced martyrdom during the clashes. Security forces also destroyed terrorists’ multiple strongholds in “precision strikes” in Afghanistan’s Kandahar province and Kabul. The two countries have since stopped hostilities after a ceasefire agreement, requested by the Afghan Taliban regime.
Islamabad Suicide Blast Claims 12 Lives, Injures Several Others
