A huge blast took place outside the District Court of Islamabad, the capital of Pakistan, at 12:30 pm on Tuesday, November 11, in which 12 people died, while many were injured. The blast took place in a car parked in the parking lot of the court complex.
Blast in Pakistan: A huge blast took place outside the District Court of Islamabad, the capital of Pakistan, at 12:30 pm on Tuesday, November 11, in which 12 people died, while many were injured. The blast took place in a car parked in the parking lot of the court complex. Local police said that the explosion occurred at a time when a large number of people were present in the court premises. Many lawyers and common people were also injured in the blast. The injured were immediately admitted to nearby hospitals. Police have started investigation.
The lawyer told me after seeing it.
One of the witnesses of the explosion, a lawyer named Rustam Malik, said that when he was parking his car, he heard a loud sound of the explosion. After this there was chaos. Lawyers and people were running inside the premises. I saw two dead bodies lying at the gate and several cars on fire.
This attack is a serious challenge for Pakistan
Pakistan’s Defense Minister Khawaja Asif described the bomb blast incident as a serious challenge for the country and said, “We are at war. This attack is a message of terrorism related to Afghanistan, which Pakistan is completely adamant to stop. This is not just a matter of border or Balochistan, but a threat and warning for the entire Pakistan. Security forces and forensic team have been deployed at the spot, which is investigating the cause of the blast. After the blast, the court complex and Security arrangements have been tightened in the surrounding areas.
Conspiracy to attack army run college foiled
Let us tell you that this blast in Islamabad took place a day after the Pakistani Army had allegedly foiled an attempt by terrorists to take cadets hostage in an army-run college in Wana city of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa near the Afghan border. A suicide car bomber and five other Pakistani Taliban militants targeted the college in an overnight attack. Wana has long been considered a stronghold of the Pakistani Taliban, al-Qaeda and other extremist groups.