{"id":27484,"date":"2025-11-15T00:04:23","date_gmt":"2025-11-15T00:04:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/?p=27484"},"modified":"2025-11-15T00:04:23","modified_gmt":"2025-11-15T00:04:23","slug":"leas-arrest-islamabad-blast-facilitators","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/?p=27484","title":{"rendered":"LEAs arrest Islamabad blast facilitators"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>Law enforcement agencies (LEAs) have arrested four people allegedly involved in facilitating a suicide bombing that killed 12 people and injured dozens in Islamabad on November 11. All suspects belong to the outlawed Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP).<\/p>\n<p>According to a statement published on the official X account of the Government of Pakistan on Friday, these suspects were rounded up in a joint operation conducted by the Intelligence Bureau Division (IBD) and the Counter Terrorism Department (CTD).<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;During interrogation, Sajidullah alias Sheena, the handler of the suicide bomber, confessed that TTP\/FAK (Fitna al-Khawarij) Commander Saeed-ur-Rehman alias Daadullah contacted him through Telegram application to carry out a suicide attack in Islamabad to cause maximum casualties of LEAs.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Commander Saeed-ur-Rehman alias Daadullah is a resident of Charmang area of Bajaur district but is currently in Afghanistan and serving as the TTP&#8217;s intelligence chief for Nawagai area of Bajaur.<\/p>\n<p>Sheena told the investigators that Daadullah also sent him pictures of the suicide bomber Usman alias Qari, who belonged to the Shinwari tribe and was a resident of Achin area of Nangarhar in Afghanistan.<\/p>\n<p>According to the statement, when the bomber reached Pakistan from Afghanistan, Sheena arranged his stay in a residence near Islamabad.<\/p>\n<p>On the directions of Daadullah, Sheena collected a suicide jacket from Akhun Baba graveyard in Peshawar and brought it to Islamabad.<\/p>\n<p>He also facilitated the bomber&#8217;s preparation by strapping on the suicide vest on the day of the blast.<\/p>\n<p>The statement claimed that the network was handled and guided at every step by the TTP high command based in Afghanistan.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The entire cell involved in the incident, including its commander and three other members, has been arrested. Investigations are continuing, and more revelations and arrests are expected,&#8221; it said.<\/p>\n<p>On 11 November, a suicide bomber blew himself up outside of the District Judicial Complex in Islamabad, killing 12 people and injuring 36.<\/p>\n<p>The Jamaat-ul-Ahrar, a faction of the TTP, later claimed responsibility for the attack. It was the deadliest attack in Islamabad in nearly a decade.<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Law enforcement agencies (LEAs) have arrested four people allegedly involved in facilitating a suicide bombing that killed 12 people and injured dozens in Islamabad on November 11. All suspects belong to the outlawed Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP). According to a statement published on the official X account of the Government of Pakistan on Friday, these suspects [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-27484","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-english-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27484","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=27484"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27484\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=27484"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=27484"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=27484"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}