[Crime] 2025 Islamabad Suicide Bombing

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On 11 November 2025, a suicide bomber set off an explosion outside of the District Judicial Complex in Islamabad, the capital of Pakistan, killing 12 people and injuring 36, after attempting to enter the structure. Jamaat-ul-Ahrar, a faction of the Tehrik-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP), claimed responsibility for the attack. It was the deadliest attack in Islamabad in nearly a decade.

Since 2001, the Pakistan military launched a series of military offensives against terrorist groups in the Federally Administered Tribal Areas (FATA). Many terrorists belonging to various terrorist groups were killed. However, some militants managed to flee to Afghanistan, where they continue to launch attacks on Pakistan military posts located near the border. In 2017, Afghanistan's Chief Executive Abdullah Abdullah admitted that Tehrik-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) has a foothold in Afghanistan. In 2019, the United States Department of Defense claimed that about 3,000 to 5,000 terrorists belonging to TTP are in Afghanistan.

Fatalities in terrorist violence in Pakistan, (2000–2018)
According to a report by Brown University's Watson Institute for International and Public Affairs, 23,372 Pakistani civilians and 8,832 Pakistani security personnel were killed in the war on terrorism. Moreover, according to the Government of Pakistan, the direct and indirect economic costs of terrorism from 2000 to 2010 total $68 billion. In 2018, Pakistani newspaper Dawn News reported that the Pakistani economy suffered a total loss of $126.79 billion since 2001 due to the war on terror.

Pakistani officials often blame India and Afghanistan for supporting terrorism in Pakistan, which India has denied. However, Afghanistan has admitted to providing support for terrorist groups such as the TTP. In 2013, the United States conducted a raid on an Afghan convoy that was taking Latif Mehsud, a senior commander of the TTP, to Kabul. Afghan President's spokesperson, Aimal Faizi, told reporters that the National Directorate of Security (NDS) was working with Latif. Latif was a conduit for funding to TTP. Some of the funding for TTP might have come from NDS. Former NDS head Asadullah Khalid posted a video belonging to TTP on his Twitter account where he claimed that the Badaber Camp attack was tit for tat.

As of 2022, most terrorist activities in Pakistan have been concentrated in the provinces of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa and Balochistan. Khyber Pakhtunkhwa accounted for 64 percent of the reported casualties (633 fatalities in 2022), followed by 26 percent in Balochistan, 5.8 percent in Sindh and 2.8 percent in Punjab.On 10 November 2025, terrorists tried to attack a cadet college in Wana, but were killed by security forces without inflicting any major casualties and students and teachers being safely evacuated.

A little after 12:30 p.m. PKT, the bomber attempted to enter the gates of the court complex in the G-11 sector of Islamabad, located adjacent to the Srinagar Highway. According to officials, he waited for approximately 10 to 15 minutes near the entrance after failing to get into the building, then detonated the bomb close to an Islamabad Police vehicle parked outside the gates. Footage showed people covered in blood on the ground, with vehicles and windows damaged.

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