Overview
- Police confirm an explosion in a parked vehicle at the District Judicial Complex in Islamabad’s G-11 area during a busy court day.
- Reports on the toll conflict, ranging from several injured to double-digit deaths, as hospitals receive the wounded and officials refrain from confirming numbers.
- Early accounts differ on the cause, with suggestions of a gas-cylinder blast or a suicide device, and officials have floated a possible militant link.
- Security forces cordoned off the complex while bomb-disposal and forensic teams examined the wreckage and raised alerts in Islamabad and Rawalpindi.
- The incident follows a deadly parked-car explosion near Delhi’s Red Fort a day earlier, drawing regional attention to potential copycat or connected threats.