Bomber prompts Islamic court to kill 12 people, as Pakistan condemns “cowardly attack”

Islamabad, Pakistan – A car bomb attack outside a district court building in the residential area of ​​the Pakistan Capital killed at least several people on Tuesday, Pakistan’s Interior Minister said.

“At 12:39 PM (0239 Eastern), there was an attack on the bodies (district courts) … So far 12 people have been injured,” the Minister of Internal Affairs 27 were injured, “the Minister of Internal Affairs Mohsin Naqvi told reporters at the scene of the incident.

“When I entered the court building, something big happened. I thought the entire judicial building was going to fall on me,” Zahid Khan, who works as an assistant attorney at the court, told CBS News’ Sami Yousafzai. “When I went up, I saw people lying on the ground … just three minutes before, I had put my bike down.”

“I saw a lot of people lying, with blood on the road,” he said.

He noted the timing of the attack, coming a week after the Pakistani Taliban, or TTP, and some elements of the Afghan Taliban issued threats against Pakistani cities.

Pakistan issued a statement later, saying that the Government “strongly condemns the cowardly suicide attack in Islamabad that claimed 12 innocent lives, including members of the judiciary.”

“Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) has claimed responsibility for this alleged act, which is aimed at spreading fear and undermining Pakistan’s justice system,” the statement said.

The alleged deadly attack in Islamabad also came a day after militants stormed a military college in Wana, South Africa’s southern region. Two soldiers were killed in the attack, officials said.

The TTP, in statements shared by CBS News, denied involvement by both Islamabad and Wana officials, but Pakistani security officials and analysts said the group may have been involved. the group may be responsible for both.

Last week, a TTP source told CBS News that the group considers its campaign against the government of Pakistan a ‘holy struggle,’ and they warned that “human resources and technology are attacking big, big attacks.

The attacker tried on Tuesday to “enter the court building but, failing to do so, he targeted a police car,” Interior Minister Mohsin Našvi told reporters. He said the attack was “perpetrated by pro-Indian and Afghan Taliban proxies” linked to the TTP, but said the administration said it was “looking into all aspects” of the blast.

In a statement released later on Tuesday, Indian government spokesman Shri Randhir Jailwal said the country “recklessly rejects the baseless and baseless allegations” about Pakistan, “

Pakistan’s Defense Minister Khawaja Asif blamed the Taliban rulers of Afghanistan for allowing the attack to take place on Tuesday. The neighbors have long had strained relations, with Islamabad accusing the Afghan administration of allowing the TTP to operate across Afghanistan’s borders.

“The rulers of Kabul can stop terrorism in Pakistan, but the suicide attacks on these courts in the district of Islamabad prove that this war is all over the country,” Asif said in a statement on Tuesday. “Anyone who believes that the Pakistan Army is fighting only on the Afghan-Pakistan border and in distant Balochistan should take this attack as a call to Pakistan.”

Pakistan and Afghanistan held two rounds of talks aimed at dealing with security problems that meet in October and in this agreement after the explosion of the neighbors, “in this area, it would be useless to have a powerful space for effective negotiations with the rulers in KABUL.”

One member of the Afghan Taliban’s Dispoiting Team told CBB News on Tuesday that the talks failed because of Pakistan’s unreasonable demands of the Taliban to stop the TALIBAN.

“It was beyond our control and power,” said the Afghan Taliban official, who blamed Pakistan for failing to deal with the TPT’s own failure.

The explosion in Islamabad came a day after a major explosion rocked the Red Fort, a major tourist attraction in India’s largest new city.

That blast killed eight people, and Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi said Tuesday that the “conspiracy” behind the blast “will not be saved,”

Pakistan and India are nuclear-armed neighbors with frequent conflicts, often over the border region of Kashmir. Many people were killed in May When India launched military strikes in Pakistan-held Kashmir and deep inside Pakistan, they said they were targeting troops in a country that had done much for India.