A suicide attack outside an Islamic court killed 12, Pakistan’s Interior Minister said.
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Pakistan’s Interior Minister says a suicide bomber detonated explosives near a police car outside the gate of the District Court in Slamabad on Tuesday, killing 12 people.
The attacker tried to enter the court building but, failing to do so, he took a close look at the police car, “Mohsin Naqvi, the Minister of Interior, told reporters.
He did not blame any militant group but added that authorities were “looking into all aspects” of the attack. Naqvi said police investigators confirmed the explosion was caused by a suicide bomb.
No group is immediately claimed responsibility for the blast, but Pakistan has been fighting a nationwide war with the Pakistani Taliban.
Two security officials said a car bomb device caused the explosion. They spoke on condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to speak to the media on the record.
There was no immediate comment from Muslim police, who said they were still investigating.
Earlier on Tuesday, the security forces of Pakistan said that they tried the efforts of the soldiers who moved to the Army-Run College in the Army-Run College, when another vehicle of the Pakistani Taliban aimed at this province in the northeast.
The attack began on Monday evening, when a bomb tried to bomb the CADET college in Wana, a city in Khyber Pakhtukhwa province near the Afghan border. This place came until recent years to serve as a base for the Pakistani Taliban, al-Qaida and other foreign fighters.
According to Alamgir Mahsud, the local police chief, two soldiers were quickly killed by the soldiers while three soldiers were able to access the computer before being taken to the administrative block. The command of the army was among the forces carrying out the clearance operation and the exchange of fire that was carried out from time to time on Tuesday, said Mahsud.
The administrative block is far from housing hundreds of small construction workers and other workers.
The Pakistan Taliban, or TTP, from which it is divided but allied with Afghanistan’s Taliban, denied involvement in the college attack. The group has been recalled since the Taliban seized power in Kabul in 2021, and most of its leaders and fighters are believed to have fled to Afghanistan.
Pakistan has seen a surge in military attacks in recent years. The deadliest attack on a school occurred in 2014 when Taliban gunmen killed 154 people, most of them children, at a military school in Peshawar. According to the military, the attackers wanted to repeat on Monday what happened during the 2014 attack in Peshawar.
Tensions between Pakistan and Afghanistan have risen in recent months. Kabul blamed Islamabad for drone strikes on Oct. 9 who killed several people in the Afghan capital and vowed to take revenge. The ensuing border fighting killed dozens of soldiers, civilians and forces before Qatar ended its ceasefire on Oct. 19, who live in the area.
Since then, there have been two talks in Istanbul – the latest on Thursday – but ended without an agreement after Kabul refused to provide a written guarantee that non-military groups are not using Afghan territory against Pakistan. The original, ending ceasefire between Pakistan and the TTP, brokered by Kabul in 2022, collapsed shortly after the group accused Islamabad of violating the agreement.
