{"id":84106,"date":"2025-08-26T14:32:01","date_gmt":"2025-08-26T09:32:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/?p=84106"},"modified":"2025-08-26T14:32:01","modified_gmt":"2025-08-26T09:32:01","slug":"security-forces-foil-attack-in-islamabad-arrest-suicide-bomber","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/pakistan\/security-forces-foil-attack-in-islamabad-arrest-suicide-bomber\/","title":{"rendered":"Security forces foil attack in Islamabad, arrest suicide bomber"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>ISLAMABAD: The security agencies arrested key facilitators and a <a href=\"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/pakistan\/security-forces-arrest-five-suicide-bombers-thwart-infiltration-attempt-on-pak-afghan-border\/\">suicide bomber<\/a> on Tuesday who were planning to target a sensitive installation in Islamabad.<\/p>\n<p>The federal capital was saved from a Bannu-Cantonment-style attack on the Defence Day. This plan was made by the group that was previously led by Khawarij Noor Wali Mehsud.<\/p>\n<p>Its practical responsibility was given to a man from Qila Abdullah who had returned to his father after working in a hotel in Islamabad.<\/p>\n<p>He was now working as a commander for the twin cities. The arrested suicide bomber is an Afghan national who used to work in Kabul and later joined the TTP.<\/p>\n<p>According to an official involved in the investigation, the bomber received training at the \u2018Al-Farooq Fidai Camp\u2019 in Paktika province, Afghanistan.<\/p>\n<p>The attacker instructor was Mukhlis Yar (aka Haji Lala), a resident of South Waziristan and a close associate of Noor Wali Mehsud and Hakimullah Mehsud.<\/p>\n<p>Both the commander and the bomber are graduates of the same camp. The commander\u2019s initial task was to scout out sensitive locations in the twin cities.<\/p>\n<p>In June, he went to Afghanistan, where the Islamabad target was finalized.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ISLAMABAD: The security agencies arrested key facilitators and a suicide bomber on Tuesday who were planning to target a sensitive installation in Islamabad. The federal capital was saved from a Bannu-Cantonment-style attack on the Defence Day. This plan was made by the group that was previously led by Khawarij Noor Wali Mehsud. Its practical responsibility [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":61263,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[10248,110],"class_list":["post-84106","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-pakistan","tag-security-forces","tag-islamabad"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84106","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/14"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=84106"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84106\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":84107,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84106\/revisions\/84107"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/61263"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=84106"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=84106"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=84106"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}