Jacket loaded with explosives was delivered to Islamabad from Peshawar’s Akhun Baba cemetery, handler tells police
Police officers examine damaged vehicles after a suicide attack outside the district court in Islamabad, November 11, 2025. Photo: AFP
Investigations into the G-11 Katcheri suicide attack revealed that the terrorist had earlier attempted to target security personnel at Chungi number 26 in Islamabad, but failed, it was learned on Sunday.
Earlier this week, a suicide bomber detonated explosives outside the G-11 district court complex, killing 12 people, including lawyer Zubair Aslam Ghuman, and injuring more than 36 others.
In a joint operation on Friday, the Intelligence Bureau and the Counter Terrorism Department (CTD) Islamabad apprehended four terrorists with links to Afghanistan and involved in the attack.
Police sources said The Express PK Press Club that after the failure of the first attempt, the attackers would have modified their plan. They hid in a rented house in Dhok Paracha to prepare for their operation.
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Security forces, with the help of surveillance cameras, tracked the suspects from Golra to Chungi number 26. A systematic search and comb operation was successfully conducted at the Dhok Paracha property.
Government authorities confirmed that the network was run by the group’s high command in Afghanistan. The cell included a now-arrested commander and three other members. Investigations continue and new arrests and revelations are expected.
During interrogation, suicide bomber Sajidullah, alias Sheena, confessed that the group’s commander, Saeed-ur-Rehman, alias Daadullah — based in Afghanistan and serving as the TTP’s intelligence chief for Nawagai, Bajaur — had asked him via Telegram to carry out the attack targeting law enforcement agencies.
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Daadullah provided photos of the suicide bomber, Usman alias Qari, a resident of Achin, Nangarhar, Afghanistan, from the Shinwari tribe, according to the state.
Sajidullah arranged for Usman to stay near Islamabad after his entry into Pakistan. On Daadullah’s instructions, he collected a suicide jacket from the Akhun Baba graveyard in Peshawar and delivered it to Islamabad. On the day of the explosion at the court complex, he put the suicide vest on Usman.
