Twelve folks had been killed and 36 others injured on Tuesday (November 12) when a suicide bomber detonated his explosives close to the doorway of the Islamabad District Judicial Complex within the G-11 space of the capital.
In an announcement on social media, the federal government mentioned that 4 TTP militants had been arrested in a joint operation carried out by the Intelligence Bureau Division and the Counter-Terrorism Department (CTD).
A day earlier, Interior Minister Mohsin Naqvi mentioned that the suicide bomber concerned within the Islamabad bombing was an Afghan nationwide. Naqvi mentioned that authorities have recognized the attackers in addition to these concerned within the blast.
During the interrogation, the handler of the suicide bomber, recognized as Sajidullah alias Sheena, confessed that TTP commander Saeed-ur-Rehman alias Daadullah contacted him via the Telegram app to hold out a suicide assault in Islamabad to trigger most casualties of legislation enforcement businesses, based on the assertion.
Daadullah, a resident of Charmang in Bajaur district, is presently residing in Afghanistan and serving as TTP’s Intelligence Chief for Nawagai, Bajaur, it mentioned.
Daadullah despatched photos of the suicide bomber, recognized as Usman alias Qari, to Sheena.
“Usman belonged to the Shinwari tribe and was a resident of Achin, Nangarhar, Afghanistan. When he reached Pakistan from Afghanistan, Sajidullah alias Sheena organized his keep in a residence close to Islamabad,” the assertion mentioned.
On Daadullah’s directions, Sheena collected a suicide jacket from Akhun Baba graveyard in Peshawar and delivered it to Islamabad. On the day of the blast on the Judicial Complex, he fitted the suicide jacket on Usman, it added.
“The community was dealt with and guided at each step by the TTP excessive command based mostly in Afghanistan. The total cell concerned within the incident, together with its commander and three different members, has been arrested. Investigations are persevering with, and extra revelations and arrests are anticipated,” the assertion added.
The Islamabad assault got here days after the third spherical of talks between Pakistan and the Afghan Taliban failed to succeed in any settlement to deal with the problem of terrorism emanating from Afghanistan.
Pakistan has repeatedly accused Afghanistan’s Taliban rulers of harbouring the TTP, a militant group answerable for a surge in assaults inside Pakistan since 2021. Kabul denies the cost, saying it doesn’t permit its territory for use in opposition to different nations.
Although separate from Afghanistan’s ruling Taliban, the TTP is intently allied with it and has been emboldened for the reason that Taliban’s 2021 takeover of Kabul.
Last week, the Foreign Office mentioned that Pakistan anticipated that the Taliban regime would have the ability to management cross-border assaults and take concrete actions in opposition to the TTP parts current on Afghan soil.
The TTP, often known as the Pakistan Taliban, was arrange as an umbrella group of a number of militant outfits in 2007. Its primary intention is to impose its strict model of Islam throughout Pakistan.
Pakistan had hoped that the Afghan Taliban would cease using their soil in opposition to it by expelling the TTP operatives, however they’ve apparently refused to take action after coming to energy.
The TTP has been blamed for a number of lethal assaults throughout Pakistan, together with an assault on military headquarters in 2009, assaults on army bases and the 2008 bombing of the Marriott Hotel in Islamabad.
Published – November 15, 2025 02:05 am IST
