{"id":41824,"date":"2026-02-08T09:33:09","date_gmt":"2026-02-08T03:48:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/?p=41824"},"modified":"2026-02-08T09:33:09","modified_gmt":"2026-02-08T03:48:09","slug":"pakistan-arrests-4-islamabad-bombing-facilitators-as-victims-laid-to-rest","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/pakistan-arrests-4-islamabad-bombing-facilitators-as-victims-laid-to-rest\/","title":{"rendered":"Pakistan arrests 4 Islamabad bombing \u2018facilitators\u2019 as victims laid to rest"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;\" class=\"sharethis-inline-share-buttons\" ><\/div><p><strong>Pakistan:<\/strong> Pakistan\u2019s military says it has arrested four \u201cfacilitators\u201d who helped the attacker in Friday\u2019s deadly Islamabad mosque bombing as authorities intensify a security crackdown amid rising concerns over cross-border attacks.<\/p>\n<p>Thousands of mourners gathered in the capital on Saturday to bury the victims of the attack, which killed at least 32 worshippers and injured 170 others, officials said.<\/p>\n<p>The military said on Saturday that a \u201cmajor breakthrough has been made in the investigation into the Trilai Kalan Islamabad suicide attack, with intelligence and law enforcement agencies conducting raids and making arrests in Peshawar and Nowshera\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>It said that the operations, based on technical and human intelligence, led to the arrest of \u201cfour facilitators of the suicide attacker, as well as the Afghan Daesh [ISIL or ISIS] mastermind behind the attack\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>The military alleged that the \u201cplanning, training, and indoctrination for the attack took place in Afghanistan\u201d, adding that under \u201cAfghan Taliban patronage, extremist groups continue to pose a serious threat to regional and global peace\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>Earlier in the day, police said \u201ctwo brothers and a woman\u201d were arrested during a raid on what they described as the alleged suicide bomber\u2019s hideout.<\/p>\n<p>Friday\u2019s powerful explosion struck the Khadija Tul Kubra Shia mosque in the Tarlai Kalan area on the outskirts of Islamabad. The ISIL armed group claimed responsibility.<\/p>\n<p>The attack was the deadliest in Islamabad since September 2008, when a suicide truck bomb killed more than 60 people and destroyed part of the five-star Marriott Hotel. While bombings are rare in the heavily guarded capital, this is the second such attack in three months, raising fears of a return to violence in Pakistan\u2019s major urban centres.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Pakistan: Pakistan\u2019s military says it has arrested four \u201cfacilitators\u201d who helped the attacker in Friday\u2019s deadly Islamabad mosque bombing as authorities intensify a security crackdown amid rising concerns over cross-border attacks. Thousands of mourners gathered in the capital on Saturday to bury the victims of the attack, which killed at least 32 worshippers and injured [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":41825,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-41824","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-world"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41824"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=41824"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41824\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":41827,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41824\/revisions\/41827"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/41825"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=41824"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=41824"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=41824"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}