Pakistan says it has arrests 4 militants over involvement in suicide bombing at Islamabad court

ISLAMABAD AP Pakistan on Friday broadcasted the arrest of four militants over their alleged involvement in a deadly suicide bombing outside a district court in the capital a breakthrough in an probe launched after the attack killed people and wounded others The men are suspected members of the outlawed Tehrik-e-Taliban Pakistan or TTP which is a separate group but closely allied to the Afghanistan Taliban One of the persons Sajid Ullah is thought to have handled the bomb used in the suicide attack on the court in Islamabad on Tuesday the executive noted in a post on social media platform X The men were detained in a joint operation by the nation s Intelligence Bureau and Counter-Terrorism Department the executive declared The arrests came a day after Pakistan s Interior Minister Mohsin Naqvi noted Afghan nationals carried out suicide bombings in Islamabad and northwest Pakistan earlier this week Ullah narrated investigators that Saeed-ur-Rehman a TTP commander ordered the attack in Islamabad through the Telegram messaging app The commander also known as Daadullah sent Ullah photographs of the suicide bomber an Afghanistan citizen with orders to receive him after he crossed the perimeter into Pakistan from Afghanistan where he was a resident of Nangarhar province the administration mentioned Ullah arranged accommodation for the attacker near Islamabad and later retrieved an explosive suicide vest from a graveyard in the northwestern city of Peshawar on Daadullah s instructions before transporting the vest to the capital the ruling body revealed Daadullah originally from Pakistan s Bajaur region is part of TTP s intelligence wing and currently hiding in Afghanistan the ruling body stated Naqvi Pakistan s interior minister declared Thursday that Afghan citizens were involved in the Islamabad bombing on Tuesday and an attack Monday in the northwestern city of Wana where gunmen stormed a cadet college and began a gun battle that lasted nearly hours Three soldiers and all the attackers were killed The attacks underscored Pakistan s deteriorating precaution circumstances as the country faces a resurgence in militancy increasingly fraught relations with Afghanistan s regime in its capital Kabul and a fragile cross-border ceasefire Until Tuesday s blast Islamabad was considered safer than the country s northwest which has suffered from repeated violence TTP representatives did not comment on the arrests which also came days after Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif offered to undertake talks with Afghanistan s Taliban-led authorities in a renewed peace overture while urging Kabul to rein in the TTP Riaz Khan and Rasool Dawar in Peshawar Pakistan and Ishtiaq Mahsud in Dera Ismail Khan Pakistan contributed to this summary Source