Funeral in Islamabad after deadly suicide bombing at Shiite mosque killed 31

Описание: (7 Feb 2026)
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Islamabad - 7 February, 2026
1. Various of funeral prayers for those killed in suicide bombing
2. SOUNDBITE (Urdu) Syed Hasnain Raza, brother of victim:
“My younger brother was Malik Owais. He was martyred. May Allah grant him a better place in paradise. I will say special prayers for him. I ask all of you to pray for him as well and to visit his grave. That is all I want to say. We only want justice. Let us live in Pakistan. We do not want anything else ,just the right to live. We were praying when we were attacked, while we were prostrating ourselves before Allah."
3. Various of coffins being carried for burial
4. Various of security at Shia mosque where blast took place 
STORYLINE:
Burials took place Saturday for victims of a suicide bombing a day earlier inside a Shiite mosque on the outskirts of Pakistan’s capital.

Thirty-one people were killed and 169 others wounded in the attack that an affiliate of the Islamic State group claimed responsibility for overnight.

Mourners gathered Saturday under tight security at the same mosque for funerals for the victims.

The regional Islamic State affiliate, known as Islamic State in Pakistan, claimed responsibility in a statement posted on its Amaq News Agency.

It said the attacker arrived opened fire on security guards who tried to stop him at the main gate and detonated his explosive vest after reaching the mosque’s inner gate.

The Islamic State group suggested it viewed the Pakistani Shiites as legitimate targets, calling them a “human reservoir” that provided recruits to Shiite militias fighting the Islamic State in Syria.

Friday’s mosque bombing was the deadliest in Islamabad since a 2008 suicide bombing at the Marriott Hotel that killed 63 people and wounded more than 250.

In November, a suicide bomber struck outside a court in the capital, killing 12 people.

The latest attack comes as Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif’s government has had to deal with a surge in militant attacks across Pakistan.

According to Pakistani authorities, the attacker was a Pakistani national who had recently traveled to Afghanistan.

Authorities said several suspects, including the brother, mother and other relatives of the bomber, were arrested during overnight raids in Islamabad and in northwestern Pakistan, and that a police officer was killed in the operation.

More than 2,000 grief-stricken mourners gathered as coffins of those killed were brought to the mosque for funerals.

Senior government officials and leaders of the Shiite community were among those who attended the funerals for about a dozen victims.

Funerals of other victims were to be held in their home towns.

AP Video shot by Muhammad Yousaf

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