Wednesday, November 12, 2025 - A rare explosion in Pakistan’s capital city on Tuesday has left 12 d3ad and 20 injured, a major hospital told reporters.
A security source in Pakistan told Reuters that the explosion
near the city’s High Court early on Tuesday afternoon, November 11 is being
investigated as a suicide attack.
The country’s president released a statement condemning what
he called a “suicide blast” near the city’s High Court.
The capital requires a high level of security to enter and
exit the city with specific security zones throughout. The explosion took place
in the parking lot of the city’s busy judicial complex in a district full of
high-ranking government offices
There has been no claim of responsibility for the attack yet,
but a statement released by a security source to a news agency has claimed it
was carried out by militants associated with the Afghan Taliban and India.
Pakistan’s Defense Minister stated on X that Pakistan is in a
“state of war” and that this attack should be taken as a “wake-up call” with
regards to negotiations with neighboring Afghanistan.
Pakistan has faced a surge in Islamist violence since the
Afghan Taliban swept Kabul in 2021. The capital has long accused Kabul of
harboring the Pakistani Taliban militant group (known as the TTP), which its
Afghan namesake denies.
Clashes between the Pakistani and Afghan militaries in
October saw the worst violence between the two countries in years.
An attempt to maintain a ceasefire fell apart when peace
talks between the two neighbors failed in a major Turkish city last week
following the failure to establish a long-term deal regarding hostile militant
groups in Afghanistan that operate against Pakistan.
The minister had stated that this attack “all the way to the
capital is a message from Kabul, to which — praise be to God — Pakistan has the
full strength to respond.”
The attack comes less than a day after a cadet college was
attacked by militants in northwestern Pakistan.
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