Islamabad, mosque and Shi'ite
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Funeral prayers for the martyrs of the Tarlai imambargah terrorist attack were offered on Saturday at Imambargah Khadijah al-Kubra and Jamia-e-Sadiq in Islamabad amid tight security.
The blast occurred at the Imam Bargah Qasr-e-Khadijatul Kubra mosque in the Tarlai area on the outskirts of Islamabad.
Islamabad: The United States Embassy in Pakistan has issued a security alert on Friday for American citizens following reports of a suicide bombing at a Shia mosque in the Tarlai Kalan area on the outskirts of Islamabad.
Authorities probing the Islamabad mosque blast have identified the suicide bomber as a Peshawar resident who travelled to Afghanistan for training, as investigators trace wider militant links.
The attack comes less than three months after a suicide blast outside a court in Islamabad and coincided with the ongoing state visit of Uzbek President Shavkat Mirziyoyev.
India on Friday categorically rejected Pakistan’s allegations of an Indian link to the suicide bombing at a mosque in Islamabad that killed at least 31 people.