Overview
- Interior Minister Mohsin Naqvi said 12 people were killed and 27 injured when a bomber detonated near a police vehicle outside the Kachehri district court.
- Paramilitary forces sealed off the area as investigators responded to reports from lawyers of bodies at the gate and vehicles on fire.
- The Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan claimed the attack and threatened further violence against those enforcing laws it deems non‑Islamic, citing the goal of imposing sharia.
- Naqvi alleged direct Afghan involvement and linked a separate Wana incident that killed three to an attacker identified as Afghan.
- The blast is Islamabad's first suicide attack since December 2022 and follows October cross-border clashes that left dozens dead and produced only a fragile ceasefire.