Overview
- Officials and media reports say the explosion in Islamabad’s G‑11 area left 12 people dead and about 36 injured, including women and children.
- Actors and musicians posted condolences and calls for peace, with Maya Ali writing, “Khudaya reham karo” and Adnan Siddiqui saying peace will triumph over violence.
- Rapper Talha Anjum urged tough counterterror measures, arguing that those responsible cannot be rehabilitated and must be neutralised.
- Dunya News referred to the incident as a suicide blast, a description not uniformly echoed across other coverage that notes investigations are ongoing.
- The attack coincided with high‑profile conferences in the capital and a Pakistan–Sri Lanka cricket match in nearby Rawalpindi, intensifying public concern over security.