As much as politics has affected the law and order situation, can the PTI vs PDM and shit please be stopped for this thread and more focus be placed on security discussion?
According to Deputy Inspector General of Police Sohail Zafar Chattha, the police spotted a “suspicious vehicle” with a man and a
woman aboard at 10:15am in the area.
“When the police stopped the vehicle, the couple came out of the car. The long-haired man, while being checked by the officers, went inside the vehicle on some pretext and then detonated himself,” he said in a media briefing at the crime scene alongside Islamabad Deputy Commissioner Irfan Nawaz Memon.
Islamabad Police declared a “red alert” in the city.
“The vehicle used in the blast was registered in Chakwal. The car entered Islamabad from Rawalpindi […] it was packed with explosives and headed for a high-value target in the capital.
Head Constable Adeel Hussain from Eagle Squad attained martyrdom. 2 x cil + 4 x police injured.
A day ago, Islamabad police issued a statement, saying its Eagle Squad had checked 2,024 suspicious persons, motorcycles, and vehicles as part of a security measure, especially in the aftermath of a new wave of terrorism in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa and Balochistan.
Four policemen and two civilians injured; police issue red alert across the city.
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“Our initial information says that there was a man and a woman in the car,” Sohail Zafar, Islamabad operations police chief, told reporters. The car did not stop at the checkpoint when police tried to halt it, he said.
“As they chased it, the people inside the car blew it up. It was a suicide blast,” added Zafar.
Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan claims responsibility for explosion near police headquarters in Islamabad.
www.aljazeera.com
A suicide bomber and his accomplice detonated explosives in Pakistan’s capital when police tried to check their vehicle, killing themselves, one policeman and injuring five people.
The incident, the first such attack in Islamabad in more than eight years, took place in a neighborhood close to the garrison town of Rawalpindi, local police said on Twitter.
A suicide bomber and his accomplice detonated explosives in Pakistan’s capital when police tried to check their vehicle, killing themselves, one policeman and injuring five people.
www.bloomberg.com
Last PBIED happned in 2014 targetting a court is the capital.