According to Federal Interior Minister Rana Sanaullah, law enforcement authorities (LEAs) have detained suspects connected to the suicide bombing in Islamabad that left one police officer dead and several others injured.
The announcement was made on Twitter by the interior minister.
He said that the perpetrators and handlers of the suicide attack in Islamabad had been apprehended and added that the cab driver was not under investigation because the suspect had hired him for the trip.
Sanaullah also revealed that the terrorists were residents of Rawalpindi and were from the Kurram Agency district of Kohat, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (KP).
The Interior Minister stated, “We have detained four to five individuals.”
Sanaullah stated in an interview with a private news channel that “the banned Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) accepted the responsibility for the attack.”
A four-person joint inquiry committee led by the SSP of the Counter Terrorism Department (CTD) was established earlier on December 24 by Islamabad Chief Commissioner Muhammad Usman Younus to look into the suicide bombing in Sector I-10.
According to the notification, the JIT was established in accordance with Section 19A of the 1997 Anti-Terrorism Act.
A suicide attack in Sector I-10 of Islamabad resulted in at least one officer being killed, four cops hurt, and two civilians injured.
