(Pakistan, 8th) Pakistan's Interior Minister Mohsin announced on the 7th that the main suspect involved in the Islamabad mosque bombing the previous day has been arrested.
According to Xinhua News Agency, at a press conference, Mohsin stated that after the explosion, the counter-terrorism unit and Khyber Pakhtunkhwa provincial police launched raids in areas such as Nowshera and Peshawar in the province, capturing four suspects. One of them is believed to be the mastermind behind the case. This person is an Afghan national and is linked to the extremist group “Islamic State.”
He said that during the raids, one police officer from the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa provincial police headquarters was killed, and several others were injured.
He also noted that the planning of the attack, training of the attacker, and indoctrination of extremist ideology were all carried out by “Islamic State” within Afghanistan.
On February 6, a Shiite mosque in Sheikh Zayed Town, Islamabad, the capital of Pakistan, was bombed, causing numerous casualties. “Islamic State” subsequently claimed responsibility for the attack. On the 7th, a spokesperson for the Pakistan police said that two local hospitals receiving the wounded reported two and three deaths respectively, bringing the total death toll from the bombing to 36.